anne : Writing

The Place that Knows You Not

The Place that Knows You Not

A Poem by anne


In the morning it is never the same -the way the light falls and turns to what is missing, sometimes misses, sometimes finds. The streak of yellow al..
Silent Blue

Silent Blue

A Poem by anne


By now, I thought the world remembered me, thought I had left something big enough to be recognized for. But sometimes at night, when the world is ..
Grief for breakfast

Grief for breakfast

A Poem by anne


I. I am in the kitchen stuffing old tomatoes down the drain knowing you will come in soon and tell me to stop being ridiculous. That you can..
Today I told my mother I loved her

Today I told my mother I loved her

A Poem by anne


and she smiled and her smile smiled and her voice sounded like something almostholy when she said she loved me, too. There is something I..
Heavy clouds

Heavy clouds

A Poem by anne


My father grew up in a place where it did not rain. I never understood this. I never understood how people could live peacefully in a place where c..
Bed time stories

Bed time stories

A Poem by anne


Father gave, gave, gave and mother broke everything in half like dishes, like love. Like the house in which they grew your body, watered it ..
First date conversations

First date conversations

A Poem by anne


I didn’t cryat my father’s funeral, but I criedat my own, seven years ago, when the coffin was made out of skin and wore my name..
Sick body

Sick body

A Poem by anne


He says let me help strip this skin off, this wallpaper you’re wearing like a disease. Let me heal you here and here and here. H..
Grief

Grief

A Poem by anne


When grief begs you to stay in bed for the day, puts his claws on your thighs,whispers that you owe him in all this dark, say no. Say silence kills. S..
I EXIST

I EXIST

A Poem by anne


Tonight you are living in the ruins of other people’s dreams. Sometimes in your sleep you can still hear the clapping of hands and teeth a..

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