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Every Time, For Him
It was easy to get caught up in the minutiae, easy to think of what she did, day to day, as the important stuff, when in fact it was the overarching pattern she’d wanted to accomplish. She didn’t do it … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Flash
Tagged blue-eyed man, cat, cat jones, catastrophe, catastrophe jones, companion, dreams, fiction, flash, flash fiction, grief, Hell, hope, jones, loneliness, loss, love, misery, waiting, writing
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Five Ways Of Looking
I. Sometimes I can’t help but wonder at the forks in the road. Paths not taken. Discoveries not made. How would they have turned out? No different than anyone else looking back on their lives, but I feel infinitely ill-prepared … Continue reading
Posted in Love Poems, On Depression, Poetry
Tagged anger, connection, depression, dreams, fear, grief, hate, heart, hope, life, loneliness, loss, memories, memory, mental illness, misery, pain, poem, poems, poetry, relationships, writing
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Untranslateable
Gone in a flash, in an instant, in a moment and all I have left are the memories of a time and place that never were. I can see your too-blue eyes and I can taste the smoke on your … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Poetry
Tagged cat, cat jones, catastrophe, catastrophe jones, depression, getting over it, grief, hate, hiraeth, hope, jones, loneliness, loss, love, misery, moving on, nostalgia, poem, poems, poetry, relationships, saudade, suicide, the blue-eyed man, toska, whisky, writing
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Plague Ship
Drowning, struggling. I come up just for enough air to shout for help, but no one can hear me. I never made it above the surface, and what I take in is a long, heaving gasp of cold, of salt. … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry
Tagged depression, fear, hope, loneliness, mental illness, pain, poem, poems, poetry, sadness, self pity, suicide, writing
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I wondered a lot
I had you pinned. I had you broken. I had you breathless. I had you begging for me. And then I heard seagulls. I wondered if someone else overheard you call out my name. I wondered if you got weak … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry
Tagged kinky, loneliness, misery, poem, poems, poetry, sadness, seagulls, sex, sexual, sexual dysfunction, weird
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