There was ichor in our veins. Mine from yours, just under skin, drawn with vampyric teeth from the tattoo on your ribs. Teasing every drop to your hi...Read more
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Sugar crashing
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"Not hopeless if you are less than 21." - Ezra Pound What is the wealth of my experience? I wonder, with what speed should my heart fall, How man...Read more
No one gives a damn about a poem until they need a poem — Omotara James. No one writes a poem because they want ...Read more
When I say, "love," What do you hear? When I say, "I love you," Is it just a middle syllable Like a metronome beat, Semantic satiation? Or do you fe...Read more
Your truth and mine are double-edged swords— tides in different synchronicity They see lies in what the other bleeds for. They see the fault in the h...Read more
I did not choose this shape, but it is mine. the river moves slowly, softening what it loves until it is smooth. have patience. it will take years of...Read more
Great fortune will follow you. You will eat the heart of a horse in winter. You won’t have to pray twice. Every mountain will unclench its jaw...Read more
Get used to being carried everywhere. Sunlight and rain are both your companions. Sometimes you'll be forgotten. Sometimes you'll become the one every...Read more
A dried well sits along a sugarcane mill, on a stretch of land encompassing three dialects. You see kids rolling tires and tubes, medieval games in ...Read more
Realizing thankfully somewhere at some point Perfection is an impossible ask Why was it made the benchmark of every task Perfection is a concept we gr...Read more
Suppose fate misplaced us, you and I, both miserable, holding on, yet never close enough to become each other's pulse. Young, foolish, and unbearably...Read more
It ebbs and flows. Your vacancy assails my lofty bungalow. I still pace those halls where we used to play hide-and-seek, where the throes of the worl...Read more
If I were a music-maker, I think I'd like to write a song About your dimples and your laugh And how they turn the Earth along. With ginger tea out on...Read more
When the teeth betray your tongue, what does it feel like? When the oxygen doesn't reach your lungs, what does it feel like? When your mind doesn't ev...Read more
Arctic blue diamonds, divine and grand Gleaming with the love he held, Wrapped in silver and lined with gold, It was a promise he made to her.
Everything is a lie, a curtain pulled across the stage, paint peeling, actors mouthing lines they don’t believe. I don’t like you your voice ...Read more