• drug

    your face calls me like a siren that pains as it pleases; i can’t stop falling in, forgive me my soul, i long to be so utterly shattered, and cruelty calls me like a drug

  • breathless

    like clear water it trickles down over your lips, your eyes, the curl of your smile; i can see it play over your skin, constantly dancing every beat, every rhythm while you remain so utterly still: breathless,

  • tug-of-war

    I can see the force of your boot against me and your eyes sharpened to life, hair angst against the winds of my defiance; sing me, demand me, pull my limbs in this tug-of-war that neither of us ever wins

  • Scheherazade

    you pull out words out of my hoard so easy; i must restrain your hand to stretch sweetness to sheer taffy, like Scheherazade I must make 1001 nights out of you before sleep seeps into my pillows

  • 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