he waits below
torpedos loaded
& if it sweetly
goes to plan we can
sink with abandon

it's all just
perspective

you're there
i am here
subsequently

apologetically

love lies

after all parallel
to that which
perpetually
needs

take me
away from
this house
let it be
we that go
by 'til all
ours of night

but really all she is
is fall night burns
inside everyone leaves
it carries her turned
colors haunting heavy
down in the garden

but they always want
to talk & i so fond
of being anonymous

this small game where
i find so much more to
tell when no one speaks

oh i hear
your dragons
& how you've
been longing
to breathe me
since you first
noticed i was
on fire

no

the answer is
& all that
flattery
won't change it

put away
those paws
or i'll show you

all my most
retractable
points

tired of
these
remains
i know
too well
to keep

i forget
what i want
to mean

hammocked
in ignorance
you'll wake up

wet in cobwebs

realize it's your
blood between
these sheets

hermes took
a 12 gauge
in the winged
shoe & no one

is left to carry
my petition to
olympus

ye gods

to the zeus
i used
to know
who'd turn

into a cow &
pick up chicks

it's easier to
turn the volume up

something about
moments
something about
letting what doesn't
matter slip away
i slip away

or perhaps
she only loved
how he distorted
truths of what
she wasn't

sterilized
by this hard work
of losing

all these headlines that
never match your story

loose she
fades to
shadow

outside dark's
cold teeth can't
purchase prove
her slipaway

poison paints
veins no anti-
venom for a
blue webbing

overdid under
-doing never told
him what way
light trembled
so in his eyes

rabbit
-bred
bad
word
habits

autumn & october still
hang too tight to what's
left of these trees

tremble to think they
may follow september
up her wildfire pyre

endless acres sacrificed
for a stay of summer

moved me recently

wish you well by emma Louise

make me uncomfortable by seavera

adore by amy shark

love is blind by dustin tebbutt

1+1 by ryan downey feat. zoë randall

journey's don't stop believing covered by the jezabels

little pieces
on loose paper
i work through
poem proofs
i could've
blown away

in each inkrun i
am suddenly
unable to share

withdrawn
down deep
roots sapped
& shaken stood
in wind while
wild pieces
of me let go
like leaves
untethered &
retreating

fatigued focus
on a few functions
this farce of faking fine

everything in
reverberation
escalate echoes
between days
& dark walls
postpeak troughs
these prices
we pay to write
reconciliation
of all our selves

minded efforts to
bridge these gasps

flint words &
emotion steels
too distant to
spark what feels
a perhaps poem

how i ponder
his shadows

how he shallows
my sleep though
these lines could
only end empty

how he swallows

& i fell beneath
a blood bed into
these riptides

drown day's
glow confidence

how he takes sky
& looks down
higher than my call
higher than the roar

which kills it

linger in these
shivers of chilled
morning fingers
which paw through
my thin sheets

from bed to breakfast
quick bit of buttered toast &
jam to start the day

a few crisp-edged clouds
loll cool slip over jagged
peaks into valleys