Midnight in New Orleans
the streetlights waveredhazy and unsurethe air clung to herlike a damp sheetit flutteredbut wouldn’t slide off
All posts tagged: other poetry
When I Dream They Come
when I dream they come
The Smoke Lingers
I was running hard
A Crimson Moon
under a crimson moon
Sundown
most people prefer to turn on their porch lights
06/08/2020
the office was dark
Bright Eyes
eyes shine bright piercing the dark drawing me in slowly reaper
Twitching
The earth twitches when the sun shines down Warming the dirt Awaking what’s underground fingers stretch unbound formally inert The earth twitches when the sun shines down eyes open to crumbling shrouds newly alert Awaking what’s underground moaning drifts from old burial mounds unsettling concert The earth twitches when the sun shines down villagers flee from the sound quickly desert Awaking what’s underground sunbeams shimmer all around Warming the dirt The earth twitches when the sun shines down Awaking what’s underground
Dark and Grey
I was supposed to write about flowers today but they are hidden in their graves the sky is dark and gray I was supposed to write about flowers today the rain drives my thoughts astray the bulbs lay in earthen caves I was supposed to write about flowers today but they’re hidden in their graves
Stains
Keep your whispers to yourself I’d rather listen to the rain Don’t hiss them at anybody else Keep your whispers to yourself Store them bottled on a shelf I don’t want to hear your stains Keep your whispers to yourself I’d rather listen to the rain
