grievance
soft, sweet yearning
gentle tone
I'm caught wanting to be alone
mouth drawn open
eyes wide shut
learning can't just be enough
take my time
say all my prayers
broken open, can't compare
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rapid squirrel
open hearted field soaked with late summer sun no audience for this fervent laughter prickle green trees and cut fruit holding the back end of silence and stillness my back arches in a years old shirt sustenance that is only beginning
abstraction
read your face like a bible your name in thick, black ink we can't keep doing this there's a haste in my words a broken fever I'm covering up like a child with their hands and their knees in the dirt
overconsumption
kneel on my knees let her stand over me this prize, but a consolation make a comment watch her laughter sting the air life is but the simplest of pleasures
working through it
disgusting act can't make myself stay or say go away drive home to nail down an inexorable point can't take even a hint of rejection moving toward something or moving around head spin dizzy from constant counter movement not your fault but it's not