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When I first felt,
most delicately,
the acute, concerned edge of treason
my revivified lungs and blood and saliva
began to circumv..
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Ethereal rabbit fur coat
Wrapped gently about your shoulders before
Your shoulders folded in on themselves
And your hair was all transl..
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When the fires came to Santa Barbara just to remind us how all beautiful things are finite, my room was being painted, empty save for a bare mattress ..
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Last night I
gave in to my selfish,
pressed up against
some pungently boyish smelling
Peter Pan
flower child
Last night he
tast..
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were so predestined to be buried
we hardly noticed when they were laid to rest
six feet below the ground.
As a girl you would pla..
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Heavy and foreign as a lead weight
I want to hold you in my hips until the day I die
(secretly)
coat soft pink with soft metal
insid..
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What can we do but exchange pleasantries?
We grapple with the thought of slapping one another hard,
once or twice on the cheek,
and..
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(someone must have heard it crash because it did)
There were three dead, maybe four,
names lost to us with the toxins
found in th..
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When the water first began to pool,creeping like sweat on a child's back,it went unnoticeduntil it breached the crack of light below our front doorand..
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My Nona was heaving,bentover a pillow belonging to the sofa I hatedattempting to sew the seam togetherwhere the zipper had broken from useand over-use..
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