On my knees I lapped up your attentions like a dog that hadn’t drank in a month I suppose I should’ve seen the kick coming before it did but the glitter in my eyes blinded me to the truth of you To top it off, I sat right back up and begged you to stay, […]
This morning I saw a crow on the wire and when I called out to him, he seemed to look right into my soul. I wonder what he saw there? Perhaps he saw love lost and found and lost again? Maybe some pitiful woman desperately hoping to be someone important to you? Because really, if […]
with your hand around my throat and my eyes fading grey edges burning in and taking over colors mute and for a split second all becomes clear you pour out all your wrath and vehemence on my broken body the cracks and fractures and crushed windpipe physical evidence of your emotional maelstrom spit and tobacco […]
it never was easy to catch my breath through the thunderstorm of fists raining down some imperfection to be beat out of me the wrong look not quick enough with an answer a misplaced step or I closed the door to the bathroom again flinching and dodging never helped either yet I always did both […]
you don’t need to kick the broken dog when she’s already laying there mangled in her own vomit entrails bulging out and staring glassy eyes you don’t need to point out that she’s ugly and worthless and nobody will want her now no she already knows she can’t run she knows you’ve moved on so […]
I was flying amongst the clouds Floating and one with the salty sea air The breezes ruffling my feathers The sun upon my wings and my beak Turning my head First one eye then the other I spied from high above the oceans swells Something spreading Across the waters surface It was black and shiny […]
