Haiku
Stumbling over words, Like a child stumbles over shoe la… Left undone. Every word I want to say, Left undone.
I never thought I could crave a s… Like the one that sits across your… Distinctly scraped from the corner… Made in depths of dreams and forei… Its own presence, reflecting galax…
‘I’ am the lifeless infinite. ‘I’ am the sun, perforating throug… ‘I’ am a strawberry moon. But what is I?
Whenever I’m alone, I stay smiling, Counting the stitches sewn, On 100 thread count sheets, Wishing for rain,
I can’t say I know, The bed where you lay, The shape, color, and patterns, That makes up your day, I can only say now,
I feel like I could vomit tears, But that wouldn’t suffice, For amount of years together, Exactly twice, I have no idea...
She melds into the rhythm, listening for a heartbeat, escaping into the fumes, her thoughts incomplete. She escaped through the cracks,
under florescents, the cigarette butts are like confe… glittering the sidewalk, with anxiety.
Despite the rips in between the se… I can’t escape my bones, I can’t fight the dreams, So I wait but, I can’t manage to speak,
Flying out of the nest, At sixty mph, Four hours—without rest.
‘We’re the same’, Teetering on edges of lines, I ca… And you say again ‘we are the same… Conflating words, Of an honest one,
Can I just have slow sex, Long talks, Lengthy poems, And everyday walks.... Can I have running through the wo…
You collect calluses, Like precious gems, Revering their form, Keeping them close, And if it wasn’t for me,
The language of love flowed freely… Through the rivers of our veins, During the summer we discovered ma… And razors edges. We used the torn corners,
No implications, Did I notice at the time, Only the key strokes.
