Just Breathe
Just Breathe
No counting sheep
Just breathe deep
And let your eyes sink
Don’t feel too much
Don’t fret
Maybe soon
But not yet
You’ll lie by me
And we’ll dream
The same dreams
And just breathe
Just breathe...
Holding the limbs and segments
Of my fragile form together
In his firm arms
Securely welding the pieces
Back to normal
Numbing, erasing the thoughts he hates
He hates
But he loves
And he saves
And he carries
M.E.
Holding me under the
Big blue blanket
Too hot
Cramped with secrets
Cramm...
Mocha smoke
From a hipster sippy cup
Curls his goatee
And her
Feminist underarm
Stubble
Poetry scribbles
With damp brown rings
Serve as coasters
With pencil
Stirring rods
POMO crumbs
Clog eager protests
They laugh
And fling soggy
Food shards
Mocha Smoke
Seeps from yawning pores
...
Sweet and sour all
Over the table
Looks like a blood bath
It’s not right-
Egg rolls served by
A white chick
But they’re crispier than
Your burnt back and
My SNAP-able
Blonde hair
The paper lantern’s
Light fades inside the
Ambiance
Where the black hole
Twists
Like the Chow Mei...
Wiggity Walla Waa
Cold jams flat
Upon my cold ears
Like a lemon
Freeze pop
Schmoozing away
The summer
With kisses
And more kisses
And a little more for
G (reat) ood measure
Bippity Bopp BaAaA
Your warm lips
Laugh with warm breath
Curling around my
Face
Expanding this night
With kis...
Golden brown spears of wealth
Crackle in reverence under high noon
Freshly painted candy apple barns
Roast sticky sweet in the sizzling
Summer heat
Tongues sweat with an appetite
For the heart's rhythm and
Grandma's heart-stopping fried chicken
And your farmer-tanned skin is
Crisp with salt...
Love shared over
A heart attack
Slathered on a
Paper plate
With love from
The Carnie crew
Your eyes search mine
As exhaust and dust
Meander by
We feel the heartbeat
Of the Ferris wheel
Pulsing the same as ours
As it muscles through another mile
Of spinning in place
But still in sty...
She's spitting fingernails from her lips like sunflower seeds
She chews the ridge of her thumb like year old chaw
The
Time
Still
Needs
To
Thaw
She fights the fingers in her hair from pulling roots
She scolds her bare feet for skidding to a halt
She
Says
It...
My right arm is warmer than the other
I come alive when your arms smother
Me. I'll suffocate in your embrace to breathe
And to open my eyes to things I couldn't see
So take a peek as I follow your hand's lead
I know I'm not the only one gasping for speech...
Brown eyed boy
Bounces his burly bob.
Hot sticky sweet from
His fro…
To his jeans…
D
O
W
N
T
O
T
H
E
T
I
P
S
O
F
His sky scraper sneaks.
He trains the towering tresses with
The growl of his comb's teeth.
Whips it out of his distressed
Pock...
That time when,
We sat with legs broiling
On those fresh-baked metal benches
Like the charring of dogs on pokers
In the pit by my pond
We craved to dip in
Even though we were told
It was much too cold
Like the cups sweating in
Our hands with sticky soda and
Ice cubes tumbling around
Like ...
Rubbing off the road
Wiping it clean with your
Tires squealing to the beat
Eyes rounder than the headlights
Lead foot presses lighter
Than the lead block in
Your stomach as it screams
The beads of sweat race to
Your mouth, the taste of
Salt revs your pulse to the
Maximum as you drown out
...
Down my throat are lies
Fed either by force or trick
Harder to digest
I've had time to mull
My head is spinning with strain
Watch my lips bleed black
Wind is siphoned out
My words run on for their lives
You're immovable...
Please, can I try on that jersey?
Only for a second or two
I won’t wear it out more than it already is
I know you work so hard
It’s not as if I’ve wanted this
For as long as I knew what it meant
All these years and I never got the chance
It’s not as if I’ve watched all...
In
Steamy
Everglades
Pulp Princess
Drinking it dry
Till your mouth is on fire
Skirt constructed with orange peels
Peeling through another ripe tomorrow
Juicy sips and winks flow
Like milk and honey in paradise
Quite the first impression
Press on eyelashes
Fall lik...
Freckles explode like popcorn on my cheeks
Angel kiss, sunshine lick, polka dotted trick
You cause them to clump together in constellations
Filling the void the empty sky has given us
This place is bare, this place is thin
Just you, just me
And my milky way skin...
We are all
Smears of chalk
On the blacktop
A place to hide
From girls’ secrets
And boys’ lies
Watch them drool
All over crusty mitts
Girls ruin rules
Of clubs and cliques
And general misfits
Shake their heads
Kick balls long lost
Keep company with crows
...
Little can be much
Like an infant’s needy touch
Many words you need to hear
That won’t go inside the ear
Closing lips can truly speak
Stronger to make words seem weak...
Dear Reader,
I ache to feel the smooth release
Of my pen as it reaches out
Toward paper, toward you
A perfect union as it rests
Between my fingers like jewelry
Like a ring or loose bracelet
It makes my image worthy
Of eyes that long to graze for
New ideas for a first impression
As you read...
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