You Had to Leave Home (It’s Fine)
I call you upIt’s been two months sinceWe talked lastI’ve cleared my conscienceOf all the things I said back thenSo … Continue reading You Had to Leave Home (It’s Fine)
I call you upIt’s been two months sinceWe talked lastI’ve cleared my conscienceOf all the things I said back thenSo … Continue reading You Had to Leave Home (It’s Fine)
I was gonna love you, no matter what you saidListening to you talk on a Saturday in bedWe spent time … Continue reading No Matter What You Said
I think about having a boyfriend, a man, a person, anyone, just showing up in my apartment, pulling me from my bed, bathing me, dressing me, and pushing me out into the sunlight. But nobody comes. Continue reading ‘This has to stop now.’
You come and go so sporadically and casually and are gone for such lengths of time, that it shouldn’t exist, but something keeps that electricity going, something is keeping the lights on. I can’t help it. Continue reading From Pent-Up Aching Rivers — w4m (Port Huron)
I swear once I felt you. And not that I realized I had feelings, or that we brushed shoulders flitting by, but that I felt you, I felt the significance of your being there and wondered instantly how I would deal in the fleeting seconds afterward with your absence. I’ve felt even more so that I’ve missed out somehow. Continue reading I Sing the Body Electric — w4m (Port Huron)
We have spoken — kind of. But this isn’t like some missed connection where I saw you at a gas station, and we notably exchanged glances at a specific time of the week I can recall. Because you’ve rested heavy on my mind as such a low-key constant that I can’t recall when I first or last met you. Just know we have. Though, I doubt you’ll ever see this, and if you or someone you knew did, I doubt there’s a proverbial line between us that stood a chance of being connected. Nothing’s really been missed here. Still, I feel like somehow if I can get this out there, it’ll be easier to sleep at night telling other people you’re a guy to make a girl’s heart ache. Now, it aches a little less, and tomorrow, this feeling will grow even duller. Continue reading To a Stranger — w4m (Port Huron)
Driving around in an old car you fill with instruments and bags for wherever you go to make music real. Though I don’t know what you drive. I hear you go to Chicago a lot; I read that you travel around the state a lot, too. I know too much without words, but also nothing. Continue reading As if a Phantom Caress’d Me — w4m (Port Huron)
Attached to bones just as muscles are,
I can’t help thoughts that penetrate my skull.
Afraid that once we’re lost and gone afar,
I’ll know I could’ve loved you most of all. Continue reading Fantasies and Sonnets
You said maybe there’s a reason for this pain,
which doesn’t explain
why I’m loving cigarettes again Continue reading Sleeping Pills
And the wondering … ensues as walls of oncoming traffic would in commotion with my standing forever blissfully in the left-hand turn lane. Life rushes by and my emotions are so near collision but just out of reach to really know that it’s cataclysmic. Continue reading If We Got Our Shit Together