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i pretended not to notice or care when
fallen stars crashed around me, denting the pavement i
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that what? that i can't remember my own name and therefore i can't remember the way your eyes once burned for me?
once.
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you plucked me like a multi-faceted wish from the ground
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your eyes
are full of violence
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once upon a time
i was lost for you, but now
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you are the boy
whose eyes are falling stars
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i wanted
my world to melt.
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so maybe you and i were
never meant to be
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this is because across the universe changed my life, and you were asleep-- you said it was boring.
this is also because i need space to travel, to meet people, to be alone and experience new things alone so i can gro
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you frown at yourself
in reflection.
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maybe it was
summer in bloom
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yours are the eyes
like newborn stars
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i bent my fingers
into crooked ledges
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you told me you loved me for being all cheekbones, / soft angles lit from within by a smile / like a comma / (because boys don't know how t
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1. the sad part is, / we start out altered, / an awkward trip-- / and you fell into my lap with too much to breathe in. / 2. (your voice reminded me of nuclear war and so / it was like my fa
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1. you told me the veins in my forearms (swollen as they were) were like highways and I watched you watching me while your breath discovered Canada / 2. those were the days when we’d / drop acid like hints / and pl
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Somewhere upon time Mother Mary lay bleeding in all the wonders of technicolor / but all you and I could taste was smoke on my tongue / and
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I was squeezing the universe into the confines of a Polaroid / of you, you trying to clean up the galaxies / you said you saw floating in each iris but flowers / dripped ink onto chessboard
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"you are my sweetest downfall / i loved you first, i loved your first / beneath the sheets of paper lies my truth / i have to go, i have to go / your hair was long when we first met..." / it's funny, listening
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We were lingering at / the doorway / to my lily-white apartment / materializing / as creeping trellis over doubts / There was a moment of h
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[they won't find me] / / / / this town is so SMALL; / i feel like alice eating mushrooms in wonderland. / outgrowing the past / and some days, / all i do is watch the future come creeping towards me / in
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your skin is a tiny book of poetry with / the smoothest line breaks and sensual, secretive imagery / that brings my heart leaping into my chest. / / / / --i sit here wondering if it's my name / you've got wri
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you bit my lip [[and called me goddess]]
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we were making [breaking] galaxies in our f.i.n.g.e.r.t.i.p.s.
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--forgotten in the mind {eyes} of god he was swallowing back "i love you"s
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karma was reaving the velocity of hips skipping over one another's
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i spent the whole night memorizing each mole on your back,
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to make me so afraid of a man's hands or his belt (especially, especially when it came off)
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i swore to open skies i could bottle heaven if i kissed you and when you left i could sneak a few hits from it until i felt
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did you see only the grass stains in my eyes?
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The fruit of knowledge became your beat, with a hypodermic stem and sweet white in glass skin
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you referred to me as 'pulsar', rippling, a gigantic heart undulating in space-- everything cosmic or heavenly.
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