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When You Said You Never Loved Me

A Poem by Cat

It felt likewhen you sit on your feet for too long.The throbbing of thighswhen you try to stand.The aching of ankleswhen you readjust.The numbness of ..

A Congregation of Wilted Leaves

A Poem by Cat

A congregation of wilted leaves, winding to concrete.They wisp and weigh that of a featherof a Robin's breast.They flee through winds of Thursday and ..

Glazed Eyes and Sleepy Skin

A Poem by Cat

She's soft like the powder on which her nose is graced. I'd thought she was a whirlwind in that way. She kept the sweet whiteness for herself and on h..

The Last Day I Saw You We Didn't Kiss

A Poem by Cat

The last day I saw you we didn't kiss.I wore a red one piece bathing suit with an open back and soaked your passenger seat.The middle of July was neve..

Hues

A Poem by Cat

I remember seeing blue for a really long time.The blue in your eyes, that indigo deceit.I remembering thinking how strange it was that something as in..

Company

A Poem by Cat

I keep finding ladybugs on the sleeves of my shirt when I'm walking outside.They sit on my cottons and look at me with their sienna skeletons, asking ..

False Octobers

A Poem by Cat

Just as the leaves masquerade in burnt red cloaks, you've got the false Octobers.The fleeting moments in Fall that forge your emotions.You'll become a..

Early Bloomers

A Poem by Cat

I remember being 12.I remember feeling 17 because he was.I remember touching tobacco for the first time and smelling how soggy it made us.I remember b..

You

A Poem by Cat

You were like a string of lights in a dark room.You let me hold your cord and feel each bulb until I found the plug.You were like a chalkboard freshly..

Getting Clean

A Poem by Cat

I remember washing my hair, upside down over the bathtub.Wondering if the bubbles close to my scalp could wash away my impure ambitions.I remember rea..