Tag: poetry

Poem: Deciduous, a Top-Floor Flat

rain breaks clouds too dark to see on dark and fills the roads with silence pain draws thighs to abdomen fights seek their end in silence rain breaks against the sunlight, taps windows if there’s wind clouds too dark to…

Poem: The Soloist

glossy purple lips pluck drooping nylon strings hooked into the muddy gourd   before we made a doll out of her skin we asked her to extract pulp & seeds on the staircase where our tea over-steeped, turned bitter we don’t…

Poem: Leaving Autumn

every window opens with the right blade I let you in my grain dark home and now regret the light you let in & left me with only filters to turn sky sepia and the leaves which will soon fall…