Today I’m getting out of trouble ( Read more... )

I am not upset, but I'm asked all the same ( Read more... )

and days too ( Read more... )

“Let’s play a game,”
Death whispers in your ears.
roulette wheel,
going around and around,
spinning before the decision ends.

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You are breath,
bone and blinking
eyes wide, tears and sighs,
blood and skin and teeth
wrapped about
some incandescent dreams.

Just like me.

we used to talk every night about everything ( Read more... )

I can keep a secret, sweet
inside my lungs.
Well-hidden from the slings and arrows of
this new space that I inhabit,
this space wherein you do not visit--

immune
as you are these days
to my call.

My neck was an axel
As I twisted my shirt
To face in the right direction

My neck gave a crack
As I twisted my head
To relieve the tight tension

My neck was a swivel
As I looked around
To find slippers for my feet

My neck had a kink
As I’d slept on it wrong
My mind swimming from the heat

Fear is the first thing I notice ( Read more... )

Sometimes, when you're walking around looking for coconut milk, you start thinking up things that rhyme ( Read more... )