What happens now That you know How words fire Cleans your bones Wash your hair Shakes the dust Shakes you out A brand new lust How do you feel? What can you say? No one understands you But it’s ok It’s backwards talk never ending Say you love them but you’re just pretending Here is …
Tag Archives: Poetry
Hanging Upside Down (a song)
You said you couldn’t help yourself That you were gonna have to take me apart I told you that I wasn’t scared But I was up inside my head while You were riffling through my heart Sometimes, when you’re in suspense Oh you’re really gonna swing But you need not look for further evidence When …
Fake Muse
She was a very nice girl At least that’s all she meant to be But she was also persuaded Bombarded by sexy, sleek pictures and upvoted memes She was suckered and sucked dry And every time she’d raise her glass to quench her thirst, To drink to all the good old days, she became an …
Green Eyes
The night we met Your green eyes stopped me in my tracks And I was taken back to all the days I locked my gaze with snakes My heart attacked and shook and ached While the waning moon forgets her alibis I suddenly realize that those green eyes Can see past the wreckage of all …
Traps
We all want to be sexy girls We want to advertise our fertility and beckon Those spirits who might love us because we are fecund We want to be noticed For the grounded calm we can breathe into our loves Our lovers, who come to depend on us for care Overlooking the ways we have …
Samhain
This compulsion to stand against the starry skyTo be bathed in sunlight And unfurl my soul It comes from my dreams Cradling a child in my arms and Walking a dark road To return to source All the gifts she gave out indiscriminately Although I passed through the halls of death I took nothing for …
The Verdict
The verdict is the boundaryAnd the boundary is the voidShe has beautiful ocean eyesBut a long sharpened stick keeps poking them outAnd she must reinvent vision throughmilky white lies The spank of the earth spins herand her body falls weakBuckled under her self same powerShe has gone some stellar distanceAn engine thrust toward self same …
The Body is Always Dreaming 