Tag Archives: fire
You and I
I still think of and am caught up short by the memory of your eyes, your mouth. I have never beheld your true face nor have I kissed you but I know what you taste like. I know it because … Continue reading
Watch the fires go out
I know when she wakes, she’ll walk out of that place, Sleeping Beauty crawling out of the thorns surrounding her castle. She’ll come up, breaking the surface, a deep sea diver taking a long-needed breath. She won’t be able to … Continue reading
Leaving Again
“Shh,” he whispered, his bright eyes wide, in the dark. “Hush,” he murmured, reaching forward one hand, two fingers touching my lips, silencing me. I tried to part them again, but those so-blue eyes glittered, and the hand against my … Continue reading
Anger
Heat. He sits up suddenly, blinking in the dark, his eyes wide. Had something been chasing him? What just happened? The normal fog of dreams wasn’t dissipating — it hadn’t been there. Something real, then, if only in the corners … Continue reading
For as much as infinity, for long as forever.
I hate God. I’ve hated God since I was ten. That was the year my father lost his job, my pet rabbit got hit by two cars, my mother left with her girlfriend Dee-Dee, and my best friend David got … Continue reading