Your respect for me stands as tall and immovable
as the cliff. You ebb and flow,
as the lapping waves.
Tag: relationships
Together
If I love you and you love me,
we both I Love You, even as
we flip each other’s pronouns ’round,
fights with you in her dreams/keeps on waiting for a sign/regrets you all the time (Reaction to Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve by Taylor Swift and Aaron Dessner)
The first time I screamed,
I stopped when I felt guilty.
The sixteenth time, I stopped
when I felt like I’d gone mad.
The hundredth time, I screamed ’til I felt
I’d shown myself to be too insane to come back from it,
100
old words, new ways
different chapter, same change
always some cents short
hazel
mosaic around irises,
glowing between eyelashes
green, gold, yellow, and brown,
like fresh leaves on autumn ground
each glance I give:
my heart’s footprints
Our Old Getaway
The heart building… … …All the good, true,
right, and real … locked inside-
I will cherish it,
wear it
like
a
locket,
open it up
and smell,
inhale
deep,
cry myself to sleep,
and smile
one of the genuine smiles
as each of the surround miles
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The Break-Up
Severing,
shredding them off of your side
in a burn that will twinge with each
move and stride.
It will only sear
a lot-
This…Read More »
More Than All the Space
You have no act or game,
but the boy with the guard up gets pretty far,
so you follow him at a distance, down the path he paves.
You take my consent to him as your encouragement,
and though it would have been so unlike you,
you should have used your privileges sooner-
You had them before he did.
Still, your truth is perfect-
the hoe and the manwhore
My lies loved yours.
Our scars and alter egos danced,
and your ghost rolled over, straddling mine.
I found a shield in a linguistic sword;Read More »
The Spot
two hands
to hold or to have
with the trees as our witness,
ask
for the sparrows that record our song
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Alphabet Ravine 