She fell in love with him while they walked barefoot through a blueberry patch, during a Vermont summer that bleached the skies and glassed the air in sepia-hued laziness– a film reel memory. Their feet and their tongues were stained violet and she fell in love with his toes “finger toes” she called them; her […]
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you are a sailboat, love, bright porcelain and coral blue. you put your body to the wind and ride it don’t fight it let it take control. darling, you are a city gray, shoulders against the rain, comfort to the masses. you rush through the streets with a savior’s willow, picking up fallen sheets as […]
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The music sweeps through me, like the ocean water’s pulse against the rocks, and I feel the need to know you, touch you, be you, entirely. I feel the need to express you, exalt you, show you to the world. You are my escape, my freedom, my one true love. You are poetry of the […]
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The door opens and up I look, blinded by the light of dawn, her escapades breaking through my corneas. The door opens and in comes you, wide-eyed and youthful, a boy scout, a child. The cafe is quiet on this Thursday morning, croissants sitting serenely in their glass homes, the muffled voices of those who […]
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There’s howling on the streets. Lions, brawling, tearing each other to pieces, ripping flesh. The smell of blood streaks the sky, and steel ascends from the abyss, skyscrapers looming ominously over the bloodshed. Shouting and screaming and pain ripples through the cities, and the sour flavor of death burns the taste buds with every […]
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Her blood is saturated with sunbeams and her bones brittle thin and from her skin arises the musky scent of paper and smoky vanilla fire. There’s a bottle of ink spilled over her fingers and twenty- six letters carved into her skull. They rearrange, remix themselves into a different world, a different time, a different […]
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