Don’t look for love.
Be love.
you thought the yarn doll would never come undone. you poked at her insides, the little bits of white softness that peeked out shyly between the holes
By Sara about 22 hours ago in Poets
without my words you are an empty sky. i colored your eyes with pools of ink and circled your lips with stars. i made your hands into heaven.
By Sara 2 days ago in Poets
the universe plays a game to trick humans into procreation. we call it love. the oxytocin you breathed into me was combustible matter,
By Sara 5 days ago in Poets
they said you don’t wanna live in a broken house but i like my window frames hollow and my gardens untamed. they said
By Sara 11 days ago in Poets
i will not wait for eternal dawn but dawn might linger, for me. (there was never anyone else, anyway). i have made home
By Sara 13 days ago in Poets
the cherry trees weep in pink. the concrete cracks in jagged edges. tears dissolve the barren spaces like acid.
By Sara 15 days ago in Poets
if my body was my home i would live in her instead of all the stoops and chipped mugs and rooms lingering with smoke and sex and beds with unmade sheets.
By Sara 21 days ago in Poets
tree branches run down her back like tendrils. her face is warm, with a flicker of sunshine. leaves climb up her waiting arms like vines.
By Sara 24 days ago in Poets
if you were the sun why did you die. all things die. people. they lay under cold rocks in abandoned yards. flowers.
By Sara 29 days ago in Poets
my body flows like molasses between your teeth. sweet/soft/smooth. i am carved like clay in your hands. malleable.
By Sara about a month ago in Poets
the life that filled the gaps in my jeans tightens around my waist. i can’t breathe. i miss dying. i know i’m not supposed to say that.
he holds my face between his fingers and my heart under his eyelids. he never bid but i sold my soul for a mark of Cain