To be naked and in love: not all nakedness is intimate but this is and we are
“And in my first year of college I was with this girl and I called it a thing.”
I loved you most when you were bold and bashful wildeyed at 4 am and brilliant up late in the kitchen sniffing daikon and shrugging tasting everything i loved you most when we were two warm bodies moving together through the night fitting perfectly
wrt handstands and schoolyard acrobatics
i was seven when i learned to fear how hard the earth would be if i fell https://www.everythingcsmg.com/
April 3rd, 2015
I want to give myself to the earth commit to her lessons learn softness and openness generosity and balance when to retreat and when to blossom
Sea Poem II
I surrender myself to the sea the salt of infinite lives washing over me I can forgive a little sand lingering in my hair
artifice
we speak in riddles and doublespeak and half-finished glances i am tired of never saying what i mean and hoping you understand me: coy but ready you: distant but yearning everything is artifice and we are just playing parts Day 3-Write about interpersonal relationships and the games we play to avoid vulnerability.
Today was a good day, but…
I have not quite burned down this house let’s call it a coat that I have hung up in the summer months a house feels too large and too final a thing and I fear that winter will find mind me and I will be all to ready to drape myself in old sorrows. Day 2- Write a poem that addresses at least one other poem and/or poet by name. You might imitate, parody, disagree with, champion, or generally respond to the other poem and poet. I chose A Good Day by Kait Rokowski