When I tell you in the morning just before the sunlight touches the tips and curves of the city, before the water boils for our …
Being Slightly in Love with You by Cie Miraflor
It is terrifying this slightness. Being slightly in love with you frightens me terribly. I am not a woman worthy of poetry or songs or Polaroids taken and taped on walls and refrigerator …
In Light of You by Cie Miraflor
And the pages of old books Clipped between your frosty fingertips Each leaf yellow and crisp Used and brittle They reminded me of leaves in …
Colors I’ll Paint You By by Cie Miraflor
Look at me, sweetie. With all my purple bruises kissed wildly by circumstance and time peppered across the evening palette of my skin– the grey cloud …
The Muse No.1 by Cie Miraflor
I’ve had enough of you writers– you poets who try to capture me with beautiful words that hang loosely around my neck like a string …