Morning Commute

Take your hand off the door and take a step with me.   Flex your eyebrow while your side eye grants me a grin– did I say it again?   “I like you,” and all those messy thoughts aside, “I know you,” or at least I want to.   My steps feel lighter now thatContinue reading “Morning Commute”

One for Love

A gentle tap. A slight placement of a hand, carefully, on my back. Eyelids perched on radiant, story-layered skin. The sound of your kiss like the rain; the taste of your breath, a summer wind. Your gaze tells me you have everything, right here. I trace your lips to remind you I am only extra.Continue reading “One for Love”

on lunch break

how nice it is to sit by the river and unwind, blink by blink.   you know your same-old view in the city: skyscraper tree tops that leave you wanting for a chickadee   where can I find just one bird? (the pigeons are beautiful, mind you.)   I yearn to hear a song; the waterContinue reading “on lunch break”

Rings

It would never have worked out anyway, you and I. . Me, a lonely tree, still sturdy enough to shelter you when there was rain my own pain present in my rings– you wouldn’t have known if I hadn’t made you ask. . You, a fallen sparrow, just looking for a place to stay until youContinue reading “Rings”

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