I drag a metaphor too far into the dirt to pick up sticks and worms around the little trees little trees
Today is your funeral—It is also… You’ve died, you’re gone, In peace divine.. Your eyes—they cease to shine. For me, I know not what to do—
I see our names on checks in black… an address peers below a simple home of warmth and light that everyone would know. I wonder—
nothing I have to say matters unle… Times New Roman. 12 point spaced and doubled pages’… all I gotta show em. Forget the creativity Forget the…
I guess it was you all along. Why did I have to see it so late? No wonder I have glasses. Get some for my heart, too Preferably with bifocals.
If I were a rose to rest beside y… the thorns that built us up. I want to be the one that guides y… I want our lives to touch. Young in the summer, younger in th…
Light surrounds the tunnel Of every future yet. Darkness fossilizes What I would soon forget. A child I would dip my hands
It has been said that you should Dance like no one’s watching— I always dance like you are Seeing me Across the room
sit down my dears and I will tell a story wondrous—true. of life and love and all the things
You are a storm A fire A shatter in the dark Ripples on the surface Crack
Freaking books my skin is my cover Don’t judge me by it You peruse the shelves—stop Hers is golden
In the simililies and metaphlowers… a shred of truth grows up preened by the editor’s shears bouqueted for your enjoyment.
such a vicious cycle monster mashing in my face sleep deprived and bleary eyed my mind knows not the taste of understanding calculus
Oh Mrs. Mary Kay— Mary May! Hey! Your boy’s not coming here this da… No, he’s farming hay—
Light surrounds the tunnel Of every future yet Darkness fossilizes What I would soon forget. I look into the future