(2012)
#HeartbreakLove #Used
I imagine you’ll be wearing a whit… crew-neck sweater, curved at the nape, bare, and you’ll have spaces between the skin on your lower wrists where there once had been
Gently, quietly, peacefully You tickled the inside of my spine… shed kisses light as dandelions in the palm of a young girl’s hand Easily, timidly
You sighed in your sleep. I bet you never noticed the sounds that you made while you drank your morning coffee. You
December left some of her frigidne… at the end of the year when we par… been cold to everyone for the past… If I had stayed in town I think… would have written a story about u…
I think love has a name and it’s t… I used to call out under muffled b… sleepless nights beneath your wint… There was a stain on your mattress… Sunday we decided we would live as…
Your hands were soft like the stuffing of the inside of… but your fingernails could claw through the thickest skins. You used to wake up at sunrise
the best things always come in twos—like two freshwater pearl earrings and
You sighed the same way you cried; silent and hollow, and
You are fleeting. You are the raindrops on the pavement after a storm. You are snow, in the Spring and ice–
the atoms in your body were replac… by ones that did not remember the flavor of my skin in vacant baseme… at mid-night after five swigs of w… and they replenished your sense of
And neither would your fingertips when they graze the crease of my spine under your bed-sheets, vinyl, just like the carpet in the
Yesterday I woke up alone; tomorrow I will wake up alone Tonight won’t be any different, really.
The imprint of your teeth still sit between the bruises graz… across my neck from the night you were so hungry for my skin and I
It’s almost the first of the month again and I taste the tartness on your lips: grapefruits, iced tea, and lipstick - like a wasp it
I gave her my palm the one that I write with, she sai… waited for my future as if life is an enclosed circle of time,