Tag Archives: feelings
Older Than We Think We Are
Remember I remember I remember I set my blender to eleven but I only use pulse I only use it but a moment; half the world, half my world is thinned to blood and the rest is tectonic plates, too … Continue reading
Someday.
Occasionally he sees how the cycle could end. He thinks of all the ways it might work: A gun to his head. A tire iron to hers. He imagines what it would be like to be free: What joy he … Continue reading
Pile Up
I let the cards pile up, the red flag notices, the warnings. I let the shouts, the anger, the snarling hate pile up. I let it fill. I let it fill me. I let it over- flow. These are the … Continue reading
Easier
Hang me, drain me, cut and bleed me, leave me in the wind to dry and grow as hollow as the apologies you’ll decorate me with, later, leave me as nothing but bones, nothing but a rattle and rush, nothing … Continue reading
And all your words were empty flattery, weren’t they?
where have you gone oh god I used to see you daily used to have you in my heart in my head in my in my in my you weren’t anything but a stranger but you held me close and … Continue reading