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of love

A Poem by Krista Laraine

With great difficulty I make my way through the world, like others before, but mine. A journey made easier by an ever-fading exterio..

spring's seduction

A Poem by Krista Laraine

The sun has come at last, again, to rouse the sleeping land. She slowly stirs, he takes his time- the sun, that gentleman. Her hilltops feel him first..

memory of my step-father, in December

A Poem by Krista Laraine

Last night I found an old Christmas movie I had loved when I was seven. And so I watched, the same scenes, through different eyes. Underst..

of sighs

A Poem by Krista Laraine

To give reason for a sigh, the deep and long, at times collective, silent, or barely audible, at times reflective but never wrong. Just somethin..

hum

A Poem by Krista Laraine

There is a feeling that grows beneath my skin, between the hips, above my pelvic bone. It flutters and burns- a thousand bumblebees have taken..

of fate

A Poem by Krista Laraine

Once I was beautiful. Beautiful as the steady, glowing candles placed inside the windows of New England's winter. Flecks of love in my eyes..

the game

A Poem by Krista Laraine

I give songs for secret reasons, and tiptoe all around. You are an icy walk, threatening to melt, a season changing without a sound. My ..

climatic comparison

A Poem by Krista Laraine

I live where the cold pierces through my outer layer like tiny shards of glass. Where making love is blind as a snowstorm, where once it tantalized..

lamentations in the new year

A Poem by Krista Laraine

My neighbor has the Christmas lights strung up around the big pine tree in his front yard. They are shining tonight, and it is the 7th of Januar..

november

A Poem by Krista Laraine

These dead days of autumn's last, when the hills give no place for ghosts to hide; with elusive daylight fading fast, and haunting stars t..