Drops by at four, raids
the fridge, toasts unhappy hour
to his firing squad.
Laid off friend
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Category Archives: pain
Upon reading the work of a great writer
Breathless, punched in the
gut seeing language evolve,
my own words falter.
Respects
They hadn’t spoken
in a year, but she came home
to wish him goodbye.
Dizziness diagnosis
He feared brain blood clots
but it’s labyrinthitis.
He’ll live after all.
Dizzy
Why his head spins he
doesn’t know. Vertigo’s made
the world hell’s fun house.
Hope
Dark fear crackling at
the edges, the heart beats on,
pulsing core of light.
Deciding not to go to Junior Prom
“I just want to feel
pretty,” she says through her tears.
She already is.
Undone
Pulling apart a
life together, the future
frays like a cut edge.
Ending
It happens over
coffee, one stunned, the other
already elsewhere.
Realization
She woke up seeing
him in a different light
flame sputtering out.
a haiku a day 