Girl Friday (Sarah W.) : Writing

Echoes

Echoes

A Poem by Girl Friday (Sarah W.)


we stood inside of possibility, as mirrored beings gazing into familiar eyes, waiting for the right moment to shake the sable sky wit..
Poetry in Me

Poetry in Me

A Poem by Girl Friday (Sarah W.)


There is poetry within me -- my midnight visualizations echo rivers, like the blood-letting of words flowing through corridors of lo..
Nothing Left to Write

Nothing Left to Write

A Poem by Girl Friday (Sarah W.)


The pen is dry -- a stately wisp of a thing, unable to write even the simplest of words, images, lines. In this cathedral of ..
Hospitals and Heaven

Hospitals and Heaven

A Poem by Girl Friday (Sarah W.)


Bone white walls, gunmetal gurneys like serving trays on spinning wheels, blood and sweat-- don’t forget the tears -- and the ..
Autumn all Year Long

Autumn all Year Long

A Poem by Girl Friday (Sarah W.)


Seasons come and go like visitors never truly unpacking their bags -- Summer is dressed in the same shift until she bids farewell, as..
Night Terrors

Night Terrors

A Poem by Girl Friday (Sarah W.)


This eve water freezes in jagged patterns on windows I keep fixed firm, when the smoke-curl of darkness raps with her corpse-hand..
The Paradox of Remaining

The Paradox of Remaining

A Poem by Girl Friday (Sarah W.)


diving beneath, under and after, below the surface, but above the bottom -- I am trapped in the middle a paradox of pondering: all t..
My Moon

My Moon

A Poem by Girl Friday (Sarah W.)


Who has seen the moon rise as a tissue paper seraph singing ballads of brevity to a sky suffused with orphaned stars? I have ..
Remainders

Remainders

A Poem by Girl Friday (Sarah W.)


close your eyes as the sealing of shutters when night falls in slick sonnets about this place cast aside your supplication save it fo..
Morning in the Eye

Morning in the Eye

A Poem by Girl Friday (Sarah W.)


this morning is the placid eye in the center of a sudden torrent, and I stand within the womb professing symbolic resistance a..