Loam and stone in breath and bone, Cut the dial tone, Danny ain’t home. Reign so insane, don’t pop the chain, All beast, no tame, shred you in shame. Get your daily fruits and strap-on boots. Jump and jam, Danny’s on your can. Listen if you’re simple, gonna make it […]
Author: Melissa
Take What is Yours
You study me, too afraid of rejection to fill me up and play our song. Pour me a drink and share the rhythm. Stay close, stay steady. I am your cadence. You are losing, me before you. You are losing, take what is yours. You study me, me before you. […]
Truth in the Elevator
The last time we spoke, we didn’t. You planted a cold stone garden when my soul needed a kiss of the sun. I thought the world of you … This is my floor.
Exhibit One
Strewn self serve legal papers and a collapsing curation of unfinished ideas illuminated by a warm peek-a-boo sun. My dream of Nihon preserved in a clay mug of cold tea. Good intentions obscured by Now, Late, Eventually. The disarray, a masterpiece of my own creation, as am I my greatest […]
I Wanted to Reach Out
For affirming clarity And the home in your voice Dissolving jagged agony From every clutched breath To post my mending hands On your face and your chest Releasing the torrents of starvation and absence May I have this dance? Conjuring alchemy in our bones We are outside of Time and […]
Your Name
Allow absolution the blasphemy Parting my pregnant lips. You declare you are named For a prophet, The king’s favored Interpreter of dreams. I know your name. A slip of the tongue, It dives beneath my hems, Unlaces the seams, Leaves me undone. Incisor savoring Flushed neck and expectant mouth, Opiate […]
On Top
Can’t stop, won’t stop I know you want me on top On tap, hit that What you got to win me back Do you do or do you don’t Like the way that my ass floats Hold your tongue, hold my face I want to know how you taste Down […]
Slip Into Me
Slip into me, your ruthless compulsion, An old habit you’ll never release. Let me be the muscle memory, Your state of flow. Strum the chords, keep the beat. When you wake from the song, Slip into me.
I Will Meet You There
Ukulele prelude Every jingle a dance Of the turquoise heart Antibacterial wipe-downs Tear-away wardrobe Root beer flavored sleep now Re-engineered titanium Time travel to feasts and memes I will meet you there.
Heart Race
He hung the moon, balloon bursting in my face, no space in a heart race for timid lowercase, attract, don’t chase, Poise and Grace, suffocate on faith, his crumbs emaciate, the bread doesn’t rise, he failed to activate, HoldUpHoldUpWait, he won’t initiate, he forgot to equate in this world I […]