eglantine : Writing

Night juice

Night juice

A Poem by eglantine


While your lips are freckled, mine are holly-berry red, ready to burst with poetry-- During the day we all live in the city of Babel, but when ..
Sky-Painting

Sky-Painting

A Poem by eglantine


***usually the poem appears here, please forgive it's textual absence... I'll add it later but for now please read my note UPDATE-poem is below*******..
A slivered moment

A slivered moment

A Poem by eglantine


We made love-- and I don't mean in the physical, body-within-body way, but like how the sky diffuses into itself: cool shades into warm hues-- ..
Origami

Origami

A Poem by eglantine


Words are kept folded and tuckedunder my tongue. Their creases rub my gums--I hopeyou don't notice the blood tintingmy puppeteered speech.I want to gi..
L'amour

L'amour

A Poem by eglantine


Let's drink coffee on the river-bankin the silver rain and watchthe gentle collision of sky-waterslipping into river-water, likereaching out and touch..
Vague Attempt

Vague Attempt

A Poem by eglantine


Honesty is more than a tumbleof churchgoers eager for a crumbof confession and it is morethan a handshake in adark corner. It is notquite the color wh..
Coffee high

Coffee high

A Poem by eglantine


Drat--I've overdosed on caffieneand the semi-light cold afternoonsbring. My heart bloats and my brain-waves tremble in decadence: burningoff excess ph..
Body Language

Body Language

A Poem by eglantine


You left me to the devicesnight brings with its mortuarybreath and echo-light--and so I danced until I forgot the world is constantlypirouetting and t..
A Poem

A Poem

A Poem by eglantine


I bet you think that youare reading a poem becausethe title calls it one,or perhaps you assume it'sone because that is what you expected when youstart..
January Reverie

January Reverie

A Poem by eglantine


I wasn't surprised when I threwup African beetles in the kitchen sink.Although all dead, they were perfectlyintact--not one leg missing or carapice cr..