I make a fist because I can. I stay up late, or I go to bed early. I climb the hill with wheels in the middle of the road, standing up out of the seat, bike tracing the double yellow past houses trees construction traffic bus and shrub. I get lost in my body’s ability […]
Yesterday I went for a hike in the park and ended up lost in the woods. I hopped from trail to trail to trail all the way up. I stopped and turned 360 often to admire my surroundings. So green. And oh the quiet. I fell in love with that lack of noise, that notoriously […]
28.
lavandula spica
lavender
There is no hitting bottom when
your condition comes with spoons
and keeps on digging.
29.
cheiranthus cheiri
wall-flower
why not right there–off the wall,
wet.
smile tied with
a lip’s width of seaweed sent
to my lover’s pocket,
slipped
between quadriceps.
oh. i definitely dance.
30.
rose lutea
yellow rose
before you left for good
i came to visit
and tore the yellow roses
from your mother’s yard,
earth coming with me
roots coming with […]
rhus typhina
sumac
i feel so foolish when i forget. when the world wads herself up and jams in my shoe–moving or standing still will crush it. to think i crush the ocean. to think i crush all the loves, fingers unsettling a button or palm on hips sliding and sliding and sliding. such a responsibility for […]
Muscari
baby’s breath
The big one,
side of the road with
engine still idling
head to wheel
slightly vibrating
as I let it go–
the third, the second, the last.
No phone call
no traffic
not a cloud in the sky.
I stop waiting for the words
mid-June,
premature heat wave sticking
curls to forehead–
the fist in my gravity unfurls.
I forgive
one bent, archaic stem
at a time
the process gains years but
eventually
is […]
Euphorbia Pulcherrima
Poinsettia
i wish to warn them all
It will start with poems
penmanship in vein snipped
with sharpened edge
stoned,
moving oh so slow.
Then you can’t stop staying up
piled in living rooms
left hand to the snake, charmed.
Pledges and promises and oaths and oceans
a picture wedged into mirror
shared cigarette
what ever it takes
to get that wall of yours
down.
The better to devour you […]
Erythrina
Lucky Bean Tree
I flood the branches of lung
with air that gallops
I let my muscles catch on fire
and push until I have nothing left
til I’m shaking my head
bead of sweat
on scoop of lashes
instantly
I do not care
about anything
I know no one
I say no things
I cannot be reached
touched, worried
heart too busy pumping
singing loud as she can go
with such […]
I decided not to backtrack for Napowrimo, even though I missed two days due to a migraine that wouldn’t leave. I felt like death for two days. Then, last night, I had a nightmare–one of those terrible dreams that replays a past experience so true to form that you wake up doubting the bed you’re […]