traditional (more so) haiku
Stumbling over words, Like a child stumbles over shoe la… Left undone. Every word I want to say, Left undone.
“You’re trapped.” He explains, My body is bare, I’m losing time, And losing air.
Carefully and slowly, I unfold myself from inside, Dark and lowly, I swallow my pride, I let her out,
‘I’ am the lifeless infinite. ‘I’ am the sun, perforating throug… ‘I’ am a strawberry moon. But what is I?
You never loved me, Only the taste of my name, As it lingered on your slithering… Falling out, dripping, With poisons of promises,
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…
‘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,
She melds into the rhythm, listening for a heartbeat, escaping into the fumes, her thoughts incomplete. She escaped through the cracks,
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…
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.
under florescents, the cigarette butts are like confe… glittering the sidewalk, with anxiety.
Flying out of the nest, At sixty mph, Four hours—without rest.
It feels much less like a kick in… but a slap in the face, I would say ‘fuck it’, but it wouldn’t adequately represe… that was lacked in,
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,
