Elapsed you only really think of this word in terms of time, in terms of what is behind us and what is in front of us, but the word oozes a sense of disaster of calamity folding in on itself over and over and over again, it pulls you apart like taffy because you are…
Tag: Flowers
Weightless
I’m starting to feel my toes again the feeling has returned to my ankles my shins my knees snaking its way around my waist, my ass up the middle of my back tracing my spine vertebrate by vertebrate, and occasionally gets stuck like an ascending wooden rollercoaster, jolting and threatening to dump me out of…
The Axis
I am not interested in only half of your attention I want to be the axis upon which your world turns, the cure for your drooping daffodils.
Parade of One
I dreamt that I was a parade with tiny flags in my hair and everywhere— I wrapped my streamers around you to pull you in, forgetting you weren’t a part of the spectacle, but what is a parade of one?
The Garden Within
I don’t want to hold onto you anymore, said the voice in my head Oh, but you will regardless, piped my heart, kneeling in a garden of flowers plucking out the weeds one by one.
Bloom
You pop in and out of my life like the sun slips in front of and behind the clouds a fickle force of nature, yet I still turn to you to help my flowers bloom.
Next Passage
Because maybe it’s biology that makes me think that you and me could really be something but so the tale goes the one who’s supposed to save the damsel and reap her love really just threw a metal hook to her windowsill provided an escape from the only world she knew but left before she…
Why Pears 