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  • I have answers
    what is your favorite verb?
    by The-Phoenix 104 lines, 4 comments, on Nov 1 10:34 PM
  • the melancholy of 4 a.m.
    it complicates matters that he won’t stay dead
    that he doesn’t parish or fade
    by The-Phoenix 39 lines, 2 comments, on Oct 27 2:33 AM
  • bumps in the night
    I can’t remember what it felt like to be broken,
    to be stripped of clothes and innocence
    by The-Phoenix 58 lines, 4 comments, on Aug 26 10:02 PM
  • the second coming of christ
    the floors were made of brittle wood and the rooms always smelled of cinnamon, weed and something sinister that I’ve seen compared to mint honey and chrome.
    by The-Phoenix 33 lines, 3 comments, on Aug 10 4:00 PM
  • in perfect time
    he told me about a white light that fills a room; about having God touch you when you least expect it
    and that is scares the shit out of you.
    by The-Phoenix 42 lines, 1 comment, on Aug 8 1:43 PM
  • nameless
    I want to tell you about the day I buried you.
    by The-Phoenix 51 lines, 3 comments, on Jul 23 12:59 AM
  • when I'm silent
    somehow you’ve managed to wriggle your guitar strings around my unsuspecting aorta and tugged them tightly until they are tuned, if only temporarily. I’ve lived forever and a year with star dust in my veins like cool summer
    by The-Phoenix 47 lines, 2 comments, on Jul 8 12:09 AM
  • the tiniest of vessels
    by The-Phoenix 37 lines, 3 comments, on Jun 19 6:33 PM
  • I cannot sleep, I cannot dream tonight
    mostly I’ve learned to stretch my skin until it’s thin, faulty and threatening to tear and the delicate edges that formed when you told me
    by The-Phoenix 32 lines, 5 comments, on Jun 12 1:02 AM
  • the seventh time I've thought of him today
    I don’t think that I’ll ever understand why the greatest love
    I have ever known was a supernova;
    by The-Phoenix 52 lines, 4 comments, on May 30 10:09 PM
  • love tragedy
    you’re a regular romeo,
    by The-Phoenix 24 lines, 5 comments, on May 8 8:41 AM
  • thoughts
    Every once in a great while, I whisper to my wall and ask it if it remembers what a miracle feels like. Of course it doesn’t answer. That would mean I’m insane. But I whisper none the less because I’ve got questions that I do
    by The-Phoenix 18 lines, 4 comments, on Apr 30 4:55 PM
  • clincher
    I’ve never been one to hollow out my own eyes until now;
    the thought of thinking of this one more time,
    by The-Phoenix 52 lines, 3 comments, on Apr 29 8:52 PM
  • prayer box
    by The-Phoenix 118 lines, 2 comments, on Apr 28 10:02 PM
  • spare change
    no more.
    It’s rested on the tip of my articulation for a fortnight,
    by The-Phoenix 42 lines, 2 comments, on Apr 21 3:20 PM
  • the sun is setting
    confession one: I feel more pain for you than I ever will for me.
    by The-Phoenix 45 lines, 6 comments, on Apr 13 4:11 PM
  • to fall asleep beside you
    I knew what was coming when I made you promise.
    by The-Phoenix 51 lines, 5 comments, on Apr 12 10:09 AM
  • the parts of my heart
    i. you made me rubber
    by The-Phoenix 79 lines, 3 comments, on Apr 8 4:11 PM
  • the currently untitled
    I am water logged
    drifting like focus
    by The-Phoenix 35 lines, 4 comments, on Apr 7 8:36 PM
  • on bitterness
    I’ve hidden you in a box
    but your essence seeps out onto my floor
    by The-Phoenix 47 lines, 1 comment, on Apr 7 11:07 AM
  • nothing at all
    I’m trying to make sense of how
    I managed to trip when my shoes were tied
    by The-Phoenix 63 lines, on Apr 3 7:33 AM
  • the sound
    the color washed down the street
    and pooled like blood beneath the streetlamps;
    by The-Phoenix 34 lines, 2 comments, on Apr 1 8:33 PM
  • night terror;tremor
    I watch you walk away in every reflection of the mirror
    and my palms ache at the loss,
    by The-Phoenix 48 lines, 4 comments, on Mar 15 5:19 PM
  • one word ending
    my tongue cupped around the word
    as it tumbled from my lips precariously,
    by The-Phoenix 31 lines, 4 comments, on Mar 15 2:15 PM
  • the secrets of smoke
    incense hung in the air like a ballad long lost
    and mingled with the scent of illegality
    by The-Phoenix 42 lines, 1 comment, on Mar 15 1:04 PM
  • no better loss
    there is a lot of math between
    surgical terms and linear equations
    by The-Phoenix 69 lines, 2 comments, on Mar 10 9:01 AM
  • like a stone thrown through the glass
    I blew the whistle
    ;the metal pressed against my ivory teeth
    by The-Phoenix 41 lines, 2 comments, on Feb 26 9:00 PM
  • you said you didn't want to fade
    we spent two years playing house in the empty wreckage that was us.
    by The-Phoenix 16 lines, 6 comments, on Feb 16 6:40 PM
  • wake up where you are
    blue-gray condensation
    by The-Phoenix 50 lines, on Feb 10 2:11 PM
  • truth be told
    you are a blood born pathogen
    by The-Phoenix 38 lines, 4 comments, on Feb 9 8:28 AM
  • a million little pieces
    by The-Phoenix 70 lines, 4 comments, on Feb 8 7:48 PM
  • untitled
    I’ve found a place between panes
    of broken glass where dust particles
    by The-Phoenix 93 lines, 6 comments, on Feb 3 11:17 AM
  • to build a home
    she will cradle in her arms
    a caramel colored angel ;
    by The-Phoenix 85 lines, 3 comments, on Jan 31 11:46 PM
  • happily never after
    in the night, I dreamed
    of you leaving
    by The-Phoenix 58 lines, 4 comments, on Jan 21 6:44 AM
  • feed the sun
    I step tentatively into
    your unfamiliar waters
    by The-Phoenix 96 lines, 4 comments, on Jan 12 8:51 PM
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