Tag Archives: love

“sticky”

Standing in an underground railway station built alongside a highway in the middle of summer slippy-hot that falls on you like a damp blanket your mother had been heating in the over on the lowest setting to lie over you when you were sick the cars themselves are no better the air conditioning roaring helplessly [...]

Mustafa Kemal Pasha Atatürk

Walking in the spring rain without an umbrella should be avoided by budding poets. It leads to writing little bad poems about walking in the May rain without an umbrella. I write you these lines as a note of warning. I saw that glint in you eye when it began to drizzle and I was [...]

Untitled Poems.

1. Half-price Easter chocolate tastes strangely of dusty bread and a hint of sour grapes. 2. and to tell the truth, I love you. and to tell the truth, when I say that I’m lying. 3. When you came on the television chopped off at the waist and speaking in tongues, I wanted to turn [...]