After, we’re gentle
with each other, as if we’re
tending open wounds.
Family fight
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After, we’re gentle
with each other, as if we’re
tending open wounds.
After, we’re gentle
with each other, as if we’re
tending open wounds.
Conversational
buzz a backdrop to clinking
spoons stirring white clouds.
Subterranean
hum of spinning drums cleansing
my dirty stained life.
Now she has time to
blow dry her hair while I rub
away sleep, then drive.
Snowpack seems solid
but underneath, droplets sing
of melting caverns.
Bandana over
his sweet smile, ninja to his
anime girlfriend.
He won me over
with his Facebook comment on
her profile picture
When Robert Frost wrote
“Nothing gold can stay,” he could
have described child stars.
Bored orange nibbles
away black’s filmy fins. Sad
stubs flail lost beauty.
Would you check into
a portal to hell? Watching
on TV’s enough.