Haiku
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,
Can I just have slow sex, Long talks, Lengthy poems, And everyday walks, Can I have running through the wo…
I’m always enamored with, Short periods of time, With fantasies of, Your hand in mine.
You never loved me, Only the taste of my name, As it lingered on your slithering… Falling out, dripping, With poisons of promises,
The warmth of my tea, How lovely at six a.m. Oh! The little things.
Whenever I’m alone, I stay smiling, Counting the stitches sewn, On 100 thread count sheets, Wishing for rain,
I feel like I could vomit tears, But that wouldn’t suffice, For amount of years together, Exactly twice, I have no idea...
Last Night. Was the first night I had a thous… Perforating with tender thoughts i… Last Night. Was the the first night, in my lif…
Flying out of the nest, At sixty mph, Four hours—without rest.
I’m not a side dish, I’m not a left—over, you can’t put me away, you can’t save me for later, as with all things,
‘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,
Carefully and slowly, I unfold myself from inside, Dark and lowly, I swallow my pride, I let her out,
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,
She melds into the rhythm, listening for a heartbeat, escaping into the fumes, her thoughts incomplete. She escaped through the cracks,
“You’re trapped.” He explains, My body is bare, I’m losing time, And losing air.
