zinc words & images

  • Bliss

    I dreamt of you again Last night, marking my bedpost In red lipstick. We held hands, Noticed the snow gathering, Ate potatoes with cheese, Commented on a fluffy dog That crossed our path And listened to songs we Both loved. In the dream You kissed me and I became a part of you. As with…

  • My beloved in sun

    Let’s leave The summer behind My warm, sunburnt back. You tenderly kiss The air and Inhale the bright sky. I can hear your mouth Speak the sounds Of ocean waves. They fall On me and Remind me Summer will come again.

  • Lacking

    You were never mine, Not really, though Our conversations Led me to your hand. I made no promises And only gave way To silence and the problems A hundred past choices Built around me. You might have been mine Had the sun never rose On the first night we met. If my frigid blood, Your…

  • Knowing not

    My expectation was always this Why stop when we could kiss I’d wait and you’d wait And on a full moon I would say all the words That mean forever. But heartbreak knows no schedule And it chooses it’s time With no signs. You’re Still the swelling of my Heart, miles and minutes Make no…

  • Untitled

    You are the one I didn’t Know I needed. When it rains, I like to Imagine that the rushing Sounds it makes Is actually your heart And that I am listening, My ear hovering over the Place that I long to inhabit. We could make waves In a field of grass And make our history…

  • If I could ask you to

    Some days are easier. The faucet drips, The light filters through the trees And I don’t Immediately Think of you. My coffee is undisturbed And my toast is not burnt. But, There are days Where you are Present In every thought. My ice water perspirates, My dog begs. You are between the words Said by…

  • To My Friend, On the Occasion of the New Year — stephcplummer

    I wrote this a few years back and though it is a bit rambling, I think it still holds. Keep trying. The end may be nigh, but you aren’t. Whether you disappear beneath the ground or into the sky- whether we return to our mother’s wombs on our weeping knees, or settle into salty oceans,…

  • Answers

    What is your magic That pulls me toward you When I should resist? The kerning between the Letters and words that Tumble from our mouths As we build imaginary Worlds for a future That will never be? The laughter that pulls You back in your chair and Centers the room around you? Is it the…

  • Spent

    I am unfair to you. Heart ripening But never growing To a comfort, never Reaching. I steal Your time and hope And bolster myself With it. I am Not the future, Only temporary Feelings, manifest In words and visions. Linger though, I Need you like No one ever has.

  • Night eyes

    There was a night when I know you watched me look up at the stars just emerging from the blushed sky. You had a camera to capture everyone’s presence, but I couldn’t see how my stargazing would be important, unless you wanted to be the star I looked to. I heard the camera click, felt…