reluctantsyren : Writing

sleep awaits us

sleep awaits us

A Poem by reluctantsyren


Inside the roomWhere sleep awaitsIt is a quiet, bright lit spaceChurch bells chime outsideTo call the hourThe black cat curls close to meA purring eng..
Photographs

Photographs

A Poem by reluctantsyren


why we smile in pictures
Escape

Escape

A Poem by reluctantsyren


My poem for the chronically ill
Sepia Pictures

Sepia Pictures

A Poem by reluctantsyren


These men,in their felt, doe colored hatsin the sepia picturesdo you envision the imminent collapse -Do look back on the past,but the Past of their gr..
All In Readiness

All In Readiness

A Poem by reluctantsyren


run on
web

web

A Poem by reluctantsyren


Were the womanTo have seen throughthe web of his liesshe would have beenAble to walk awayTo begin to brush thoseCobwebs offher insides, the ones that ..
Princeton

Princeton

A Poem by reluctantsyren


The beach at the Princeton hotelis where I first fell in love with poetrySunsets spilled over rainy skiesof that young summera group of children jumpe..
Wouldn't It Be Crazy

Wouldn't It Be Crazy

A Poem by reluctantsyren


Wouldn't it be crazy if we fell in love?It would be like some fairy dream storyIt would be like the heavens opened up aboveDragons roamed, unicorns me..
Emotional Vampire

Emotional Vampire

A Story by reluctantsyren


Being in college sucks sometimes
The Marriage Agreement

The Marriage Agreement

A Story by reluctantsyren


A woman awakens one morning with a strange health problem, that enhances her understanding of her husband and herself.