• sea foam

    how could i spell you any differently than you are? each fiber of your being speaks for itself; what could i ever want to do but to listen to you string your every chord till all that is left of me is the backwash of sea foam

  • peaking

    your jacket lies hanging off the corner, unstoppered perfume bottle, and lipstick prone by the bed, hair strands curled under the duvet; you are leaking, peaking: unfurling

  • honeyed

    your gaze has my melting at the seams, liquifying into honeyed voice, there is nothing left but a tone so pure it unfettered all of the world in a single cry

  • terror

    “do you think you made the right choice?”  “I can only make a choice right, even if it tears me apart.” “you are a terror.” “Terror is beauty.”

  • cupped

    I have sweetness cupped between my hands; it asks only to be drunk, and not a lip touches these drops without annihilating

  • spill

    It’s brimming, the moon is brimming, senses collecting, pooling, milky way swirling—come down here—spill down the river; the water lilies await their flowering

  • burned

    i wanted to learn to love the sun, not the dappled green or the shadows it casts, or the glimmer trail across the waters, the slants through my window or even the softness behind winter clouds. I want to love it—raw—and be—burned.

  • summer sun

    you speak the language of the summer sun: brilliance that shimmers so sharp it cuts skin like paper freshly out of a printer/ the edges bleeding life like a scalpel, unstitching flesh from bone,

  • stoned

    you won’t let me read the rest of the story, you hold my limbs hostage, and my eyes glued to you; I will never know the fate of this myth, but sweet, sweetness…I couldn’t look away even if I were strapped to a tree, rocks piled around me, and stoned to death.

  • tipped talon

    that poisoned tipped talon dipped into the hole of my chest,     the fever dreams , / nausea swirling toxic , / quaking—look at me! she scrapes, look at me! monstrosity scintillating, perched, tittering, crickeling curled grin; satisfied,