My eyes are the color of blue camera screens
directors use to remind us how sad
a scene is, some visual idiom
I can't keep connecting to you.
Coppola used it when Lux woke up alone
on a football field in her prom dress.
I feel like that all the time.
Markedly alone and drowned in effects.

I'm only a sailor for the sake of seeing shores get smaller
and my heart goes to the highest bidder or lucky seventh caller

but I've been running on rabbits' feet from the tiger's eye
and that lump in his throat in the shape of goodbye.

I keep telling you grass grows downwards ( Read more... )

I like to imagine him as a child- some far cry ( Read more... )

(for San Fransisco ( Read more... )

I heard when the Japanese write letters ( Read more... )

I was named after a soap opera character
and treated romance accordingly
as you laid against the lace of my nightgown.

Margaret Fuller calls it mutual idolatrythe way we knelt at each other's words before ( Read more... )

He said Dresden at daybreak would make me cry ( Read more... )

Just the thought of mitosis pulls me apart ( Read more... )

There was no better place to speak ofour aspirations. I was 18 and had nothing ( Read more... )