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"mo(u)rning is coming very soon,"
he tells me,
and I ache with the words I cannot tell him.
father,
I know you have experienced grief,
but it is not ingrained in you
like it is in me.
he tells me,
and I ache with the words I cannot tell him.
father,
I know you have experienced grief,
but it is not ingrained in you
like it is in me.
Literature
ghost(ing/ed)
today is a liminal space,
broken hearted, broken
bones in stasis waiting
waiting
wait a little
longer for the goodbye
goodbye
goodbye-
did these years mean
anything? is the echo in my
heart as false as the
walls, as turning off the light
for the last time? i am lost
lost
lost
breathing anything but
air in the meantime, flowers
on the roof and grass ungrowing,
pools of water aching for change-
half my life is gone. you weep
for new beginnings and old
partings, memories i do not hold.
i lea
Literature
nest of thought
every day I see these doves perched outside
my window. they are as blank as bleached sheets of paper--
crinkled at the corners and piled into a flock.
i want to eat them--sip at the burning rot of my
columbian-blend coffee and dine on their pretty poem hearts.
my hands would catch frail bone-song, breaking them into
a rejuvenated verse of something earthbound--in a single snap of
little wings, the birds become flightless, half-way uttered phrases.
their bunched up feathers curl into pause.
i’d move to the second line--the throat, crushing windpipes
to taste the rumble of a dying note. i’d plunge through the fibers
of mus
Literature
Release
I have no idea where I am or how I got here. I do know it's cold, and I'm so very tired. Watching this rope I've been dangling from, unraveling a little more every day. Finally realizing the dark truth; sometimes holding on is harder than letting go.
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so emotive, moving, striking...
very cleverly and brilliantly written.
you're great at writing short pieces that pack a whole lot of punch.
very cleverly and brilliantly written.
you're great at writing short pieces that pack a whole lot of punch.