(2012)
#HeartbreakLove #Used
Yesterday I woke up alone; tomorrow I will wake up alone Tonight won’t be any different, really.
She hid behind cherry orchards and smelled of old vanilla-flavored coffee (last Sunday was the last time she would
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…
If your hands could speak what would they have said when the… in that hollow gap between my knee… sometimes instead of crawling they… like intruders carelessly hoping t…
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
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,
You sighed the same way you cried; silent and hollow, and
You sighed in your sleep. I bet you never noticed the sounds that you made while you drank your morning coffee. You
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
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
the best things always come in twos—like two freshwater pearl earrings and
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
And neither would your fingertips when they graze the crease of my spine under your bed-sheets, vinyl, just like the carpet in the
You are fleeting. You are the raindrops on the pavement after a storm. You are snow, in the Spring and ice–
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