December 2010
12 posts
dripping C in2 2011
The price of intelligence is chronic anxiety.
A phone call woke us at 3 AM
you never noticed how reckless you’ve become. i tried to say with hard love we’re worried, but you laughed you’re fine. brush it off until 25 years unravel. from the boy whose achievements were like plastic glow stars on their bedroom ceiling, you’ve grown up now and i liked you better when you never made mistakes. now dad is screaming and in his voice i hear tiny hearts...
allure
“most likely unaware that the snow that falls upon her hair turns an ivory morning into every shade i’m after but all i do is stare she freezes time with skin so fair and turns the longest hours into days that ring with laughter
and all i can ask for is honesty.
most likely unaware that the words she says not here nor there turn a cobalt evening into every shade i’m after i...
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How we materialize
you give me endless reasons to stay but walk away well before it’s over. i should have known by how you’d never let me sleep in on sunday mornings. out of nothing you appeared with the upper hand you scratch your name into my neck before i could light my cigarettes still, there are nights i’d catch your breath searching for substance along my collarbones. maybe it’s...
fiction, yours and mine
like the smoke i exhale this wintry season, i used to pretend you were real to me. with your hands behind your back you carried my heart haphazardly. you never knew what more i could mean. the darkness obscured our flaws so the moon met our touch as we ceded to vapid friction. drawn to the sunlight, you migrate with the birds. restless, i’ll wait for the dusk, when the sky caves down and...
