Tag Archives: free verse
I’m too cold
and I have nothing left to give I have nothing left in me I am nothing left I hope tomorrow is better than tonight but if I go to bed, oh god what happens if I go to bed and … Continue reading
Less Clever
Sometimes I swallow back an ocean of words to let only a trickle spill out. They fall in drips instead of torrents and I choke on what I don’t say. Perhaps because they are more cruel than I know is … Continue reading
Inside Space
Beloved mine, I have watched stars cross the evening sky, laid beneath a hollow moon and known for what the owls and night spirits have called. In the evening’s calm, in the stillness that descends after the day-heat-madness, while the … Continue reading
Atlas
On top of the world is how you left me every time you touched me every time you saw me every time you spoke to me I was high flying until I was free falling and then I went from … Continue reading
Glittering
Falling in love with you was like falling into a glittering snowbank: dazzling and bright and overwhelming, but then it left me cold and wet and sick, feeling like I’d never be able to be warm again.