shakespeare – Reaching Joy

Slow Love

I. Let’s not listen to music, let the lyrics come on their own. Open the door. Let the birds sing. The ground sweat. You do not always have to be the dancer, alone in the corner, swaying under hanging plants and borrowed words. Do the birds sing of lost love? Do the trees dreamContinue reading “Slow Love”

Romeo to Juliet

Words fly in through her window trace the cracked glass and do not carry it along. They save each shard for simple song until my words grow weary and out of place in this all- encompassing, playground of a world. They will climb only to slide down when I least expect it, when I tiltContinue reading “Romeo to Juliet”