Articles from Poetry

i’m always that girl

Being together, Poetry

i’m always that girl whose sprints you clocked in the park on sundays can still hear wow, that was your best, sweetheart i so longed to be your best but…

Deep play, Poetry

they come at me: delicious word bombs that drop into my days drip sweet, messy explosions so that i say more than i should, lots that i shouldn’t, and, shell-shocked,…

Poetry, Wild connection

you okay handling toads? she asked and i said, yes, i think so there's a pair stuck in the pool where last night they kept us awake with their raucous…

Being together, Poetry

when you withdraw something in me dies angrily i miss your spirit spit on a cruel world press my palm to a closed door hopeful for your return …

Being together, Poetry

meet me on the stage of this erotic theatre don’t hide (me) in the wings step forward into the light sometimes stand behind me whisper sweet everythings sweep me off…

Being together, Poetry

let your longing be just yours for a day keep the ache close lay it low sit slow wait— for the unbearable to settle Longing can be intoxicating—sweet…

Being together, Poetry

in another world i’d have married you he said and it’s hard not to say i love you at the end of every call because i do in the quiet…

Being together, Poetry

i know you so well though you don’t know that i do seen the things you tried (to hide) been the wings you needed (to decide) and now i’m leaving…

Being together, Poetry

love is like a spider it makes you jump with a certain kind of exhilaration (an odd terror even) that takes a while to settle a fascinating creature all legs…

Animal body, Poetry

sweet lung of fire each breath an electric crackle lit by oxygen each laugh a leopard’s rasping and there you sit split in two and nestled so close to my…