Amy D. Brooks : Writing

Monday

Monday

A Poem by Amy D. Brooks


Bright lights, of a stage perhaps, Hands in the silence slap, It was blue and it was dark, And sometimes I forget your remark, I l..
November

November

A Poem by Amy D. Brooks


This room still smells like baby powder,In the darkness your memory's louder.Trapped inside, tied and bound,Spin me, spin me, round and round.Choked m..
Warsaw

Warsaw

A Poem by Amy D. Brooks


And the dreams were always the same.The children, pressing down on the rusted peddles of their tricycles, trying so hard to go nowhere.The women, dipp..
September

September

A Poem by Amy D. Brooks


The Hamptons are dark at night,I was walking alone on the beach,The waves were black,My cheeks were stained.Everything in your bedroom was wicker. On..
August

August

A Poem by Amy D. Brooks


Your words fall over me, around me,My entire body as I attempt to roam you.I'm melting away, degrading into nothing,You're waiting with hands out and ..
February

February

A Poem by Amy D. Brooks


Chanel number sixteenth, open windows and twisted breeze, Your heat is my opium, feed me please. Flash to foil, lips to straw, Breathing you ..
Longitude

Longitude

A Poem by Amy D. Brooks


I put your wick to my flame, We were the children of fermented grain. Missing buttons and side-swept hair, I abandoned myself in your sta..
Coyotes

Coyotes

A Poem by Amy D. Brooks


Weeks slurred to all three months,As we fed on rounded-edged blunts.Air-fives and dune rides with no goodbyes,It was then that I realized I could die...
Dear Daddy

Dear Daddy

A Poem by Amy D. Brooks


No daddy don't buy me a coloring book,Because I'm afraid instead of my pride I've swallowed a hook.Since a child tracing your dusty framed smile,Falli..
Dawn

Dawn

A Poem by Amy D. Brooks


The evening came and went,And I survived.The darkness fell over,But I rolled the stars away,I painted the morning,I made it through the night,And was ..

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