Tag: Words

Love Letters

She’s a tangent, planting words in wild rows that release constant seeds, adrift, landing upon her skin, a skin she reads to herself. Her heartbreak, an apocalypse of reincarnations, dust on the floor, dry paper, bits, clumps, wheat lost from the chaff, molded to… Continue Reading “Love Letters”

Words

Sometimes I feel like murdering them, squashing them under my feet, watching letters bleed out, separated from the word they are attached to. Other times, I place them in an incubator, checking in on them from time to time. Some go in a special… Continue Reading “Words”

How Does It Go?

It isn’t a question of whether words will come It’s a question of how you want words to go    

Undercurrents

  How leaves lie around his house…placed, as if in a certain order. How the sky is colorless above his roof, matching the freeways.   The only chance for him to see color and chaos is the sea But the ocean is forbidden inland,… Continue Reading “Undercurrents”

Voices On A Screen

There are Other voices, which you are part of, yet separate Those Other voices are filled within you, with their weight of coarse speech and their calluses that form upon your whispers, where empathy is a gesture gained and lost at the tip of… Continue Reading “Voices On A Screen”

Numbfounded

I don’t know about you, but I have Loudness in my life With a special ability To pierce my eardrum, As if he were born With just the right frequency To irritate only me!   Sometimes I want to Stick a sock In his… Continue Reading “Numbfounded”

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The Cat’s Nomenclature

  All throats are coated There is no clear speech It is, a cluttered emptiness Search for words, understood only By mimicry, representation sounded And it seems that voice knows What part of the night To split open wide, with ruckus Within the apex… Continue Reading “The Cat’s Nomenclature”

Young Words

  There is a temporal space A frozen lake, where words From heated thoughts spill, Into symbols upon ice Slip, fall, even from sure palms   The stilled linear water Layered out into oval Fed by streams and sources Have been slowed By brave… Continue Reading “Young Words”

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