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  • Nightly prayer

    It’s too much to ask you To be the beauty in my head, The person I think of When I think at all. I keep talking to you So you’ll be the last to leave. But I keep forgetting there are People waiting for me. Sorry, for keeping you up There with my fears, my…

  • I’m what I eat

    You are the sweet sadness I pour over myself When I wake In the morning And sometimes at night, When I’m hungry.

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Briefly

    My regrets include not explaining how badly I wanted to hold you. And not sitting next to you in the theater where we laughed so hard we couldn’t catch our breath. And not responding to your texts with the humor I know you needed. Also, when you offered to get me a cookie, I said…

  • 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…

  • Language deficit

    There is this digital distance That is hard to lapse. Our time On earth Is so short And compared to how often You smile it seems even More brief. If it seems that my love Is an amusement Designed to thrill And abandon or worse yet A pool of water, still And untroubled You are…

  • 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…

  • Barricade

    Do I heal if I’m the one breaking my own heart. If I have unstrung the ligaments in my chest that hold me together, that have me looking east for the sunrise, so that I can try not to love you. Will I come back together without you in the space where my blood blossoms?…