I hear you
Beating against the tempered glass
Your rhythmic melody
Tapping on the charcoal gray roof
It sounds like music
Read MoreLast Christmas
suddenly, all the traditions I knew were gone.
Just like that.
I once knew two girls who savored poison.
The last time we met was years ago,
But I hear they haven’t changed.
Read MoreI am worked to the bone
in the middle of the night.
I am going cross eyed
and I am tired.
And so done.
Read MoreEverywhere I looked,
Towering stone walls loomed
overhead, reaching up towards the clouds above.
A deathly silence settled upon our shells, none of us daring to move a single claw.
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I walk outside in the warm sunshine,
arrive at a crosswalk,
stand on the bumpy yellow crosswalk mat
and patiently wait.
Read MoreGirlhood lives in the
cracked window panes
and the torn notebook pages
in the broken drawers
with the baby blanket remnants.
My girlhood is in
shredded cuticles
and torn notebook pages.
Ballads in my room
where rituals take place
and the ground is littered in relics.
“I remember wanting to tell you that burnt sugar is waves,
to wash over you, but not swallow you. it’s quicksand,
take a misstep, and you sink.”
“I am welcomed to a new world of challenges
where friendships I had are gone,
like balloons in thin air.”
“Muggy subway steps
reach ground level.
Colored bibs safety pinned;
babies on the loose.”
“I despise you, yet
your presence comforts me
somewhere deep in my soul. You
are always there. You
never go away.”
Read More“In the shattering
fragments of time
between waking
and sleeping,
hail hammers its fists
against the window.”
Read More“I think I must be getting old
because now here is this person who does not belong to me.”
Read More“Yesterday, I planted a seed
In my front yard, beside the rose bushes.
I dug it a grave, buried it in mulch,
Stood vigil over its silent form.”
Read More“Dragging its fuliginous tail, miserably wailing,
Twitching its scarred ears, its howls for help unavailing,
For people jeered and guffawed at this helpless creature,
And nobody could perceive this canine’s unique feature.”