I hope you remember me
in the midnights of yourself,
in the ten half moons that
cupped my face and confessed
your love for me on the
last Sunday of April.
How unpleasant it has been,
to only be seen by you when
the Sun has set and Nyx has
stained your vision with her poison.
Even at our best, it was always
with the help of another woman
that you saw my worth,
however temporarily.
I am beautiful too,
you know,
in the vulnerable streams of
daylight, the muted mixture of
sunshine particles and
exhaled pixie dust.
I am magic—
a witch, a deity, and a minx,
yanking oceans with the
center of my own gravity,
undoing the shackles you have
clasped around my ankles
just because I can.
Sunday, July 30, 2017
Tuesday, February 28, 2017
Concert
We locked eyes
And mouthed “I
love you”
With the excuse
of a song
Playing in the
arena around us.
You were wearing
jeans and heavy boots;
I remember
because they thudded loudly
On my carpet
later that night
When the right
people made the wrong decisions.
We touched noses
and I held you there,
The gentle
slopes of our faces
Crashing down
with waves of dopamine
That lit the
world with a feigned fire of forged emotion.
The butterfly kisses
were my favorite;
My wings were
too short and yours tickled.
Sometimes we’d
make them fly to each other,
And our lips
would barely brush but that was enough.
“You’re a
strange, strange girl,” you said,
and I breathed
in deep to save every last molecule of you.
It was the only
way you knew how to say “I love you”
When the music
stopped and there was nothing to fill the silence.
Sunday, February 19, 2017
Sunnyside
Her bare breasts
spread flat onto her chest like two forgotten puddles of spilt ink, rising and
falling with the steady tempo of her lazy heart. Gentle orange from the
streetlights below soiled her face with the warmth she did not want to feel. Couldn’t
feel. The accidental boy with the blue eyes and sneaky smile who stayed two
nights too many circled the palm of her hand with an unsuspecting finger. Even
in the sea of sheets against his fiery chest she felt herself shiver. Round and
round he went, tracing the same spiral she tripped down last summer when Frankie
fell off a cliff somewhere in the forests of Washington state, and then again
in the fall when Angela was diagnosed with cancer. Fucking cancer. He nuzzled his stubbled chin into the neck he just met, dribbling
with sweat and perfume, now covered with love bruises and the kinds he will
never be able to see: the bruises that formed the mornings after the screams
clawed their way out of her narrow throat, making their desperate escape into
the black night. He painted pictures with dirty words of empty rooms where they
could be alone, and half-whispered promises of eggs in the morning. She turned
on her side and felt the depleting universe inside of her pool in the socket of
her right shoulder. He weaved his fingers into the spaces between hers and she
let him, her calloused hands unmoving. Little did he know that she did not need
strangers’ beds to be alone, and that it’s been a long time since she’s felt
the sunny side of anything.
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