archives

sad

This tag is associated with 67 posts

uh, lone

i know the loneliest sentence   that after all of it i no longer think about you though you gave me it after all of that   i know the loneliest sentence   where among the prison of others there is little to be barred from except the heads that match heartache to the hands … Continue reading

meat casserole

be aware there are men falling from maples red and drained for the arbor was no armor which is close to love in french even though they never spoke it with their tongues stuck in others’ mouths who never learned their language and sat at dinner peeling back like the wood of the chairs or … Continue reading

a letter to my friend

you, i don’t think you are in florida and i don’t want to think that you are, so before anything else, please let me know you are okay. not for me or my peace, for yours. that in the face of terror, you move terrifyingly forward. that you can become big. that you are big. … Continue reading

unfair air

and i said to the world will it ever stop and it said it did it did but the love before never does because against terror we can only move terrifyingly forward so that when there are whispers again lonely and afraid and attempting to unsee the dark heaviness that hurts always one can share … Continue reading

no

aren’t there better ways to better aren’t to allow us to move into and out of us as we come to know unknowing as we repeat to repeat to as we crave the attempt of sussing something out of this nothing that has crawled among the gap of our elbows where we were the only … Continue reading

c heat?

i wonder if he wondered if i knew if he thought about how big i was tough there with my hands in my pants imagining you when you were with me showing me what to think with my thing which is no more than do and do it well a lesson in expanding oneself to … Continue reading

leave already

stay around just a little bit where not enough and forever make love like teenagers who don’t last who will remember for the rest of their lives that time in the closet with you in their mouth like a meal that will never be satisfied but that bleeds to parts not yet recognized until there … Continue reading

34 words too long

with or without you wither without you with her without you wilt here without you * i’d lay down if i wasn’t already buried under the poetry that was 35 words but had it all already even the planets outside that knock at my window with hopes of meeting my eyes blank on this screen … Continue reading

looks like an elephant

we make for bad clouds formless and sinking into one another hoping to stop the falling and the rain that doesn’t always fall back into the water but instead into our hands that once held one another until we became mist blocking our sights but still inflating breath wet and sputtering giving back to the … Continue reading

110% chance of precipitation

she says against the lonely sun that she needs to work on herself and then waits for my approval though night comes too soon and silently for me to respond to her mouth that still hangs open teeth like stars turning black for no other reason than the sweetness of the surrounding world * isn’t … Continue reading