C Peril : Writing

Chesterfield

Chesterfield

A Poem by C Peril


I've kept an old train ticket you once gave meAs is the way with everything in this world,it's been repurposed That train ticket has anew lease of lif..
Hell or High Water

Hell or High Water

A Poem by C Peril


The World fed me in gems and jewels:Ample orange; emerald green; sunlightbanana And the skies were not unkindto me - lustrous blue sapphire skiesSo I ..
Run to Love

Run to Love

A Poem by C Peril


Run to love -Run with the recklessabandon of an infantdashing to the ice cream truckon a hot summer's day;not even time toput on the shoes,much less t..
Heatwave

Heatwave

A Poem by C Peril


Melting morosely, my city mumblesin speech bubble increduilityOffended by God's failure to turnthe bloody Oven offThe blue sky of belched outcarbon co..
Flannel Shirt Princess

Flannel Shirt Princess

A Poem by C Peril


Kind somewhere. Probably has adegree in literature. Keeps her eyeson the small things. Gives her heartto the moth wings and marvels atthe defiant leap..
Fundamentals/Photo

Fundamentals/Photo

A Poem by C Peril


If you could find a photo of you at your happiest, what does that picture look like?
Green Stolen Kisses

Green Stolen Kisses

A Poem by C Peril


That we may kiss again,under a canopy of greenLeaving all our vanitiesbehind, in the land ofcrumbling bricks andmortarThe smell of petrichor,Earthly r..
2 Poems (interwoven): P1 Portrait; P2 Selfie

2 Poems (interwoven): P1 Portrait; P2 Selfie

A Poem by C Peril


A prelude: perhaps since time immemorial, we've been eager to project an image of flawlessness to one another - we're afraid of displaying weakness. H..