zinc words & images

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • In the Margins

    My fingers on paper losing their way. I draw circles around you, the empty middle is where my imagination lies.

  • Introductions

    You are luxurious In your laughter.

  • Stop before start

    Left me alone. I found a way. Not your pleasure or your preference. My meaning steadfast. Heart beating. Body providing joy. You’re the shadow that falls behind me. I make my way. Knowing. Certainty costs. Retain my pride. Cradle love. Write letters to no one. Feel the waning moment under my shoe.