Calamity

always an angel, never a god — after boygenius seconds pass. maybe minutes. the world revolves a little differently from this point in time. [we are caught in the brackets ...

ode #2 to a falling sky

Mirages / Mirrors / Memories Of all the deserts you have known, your memories of childhood are the vastest. They take up the most space in your mind, withering it ...

Was going to quote the exact section Meshugenah commented on!!

april's haiku april plants flowers in your mind, and finally the world grows anew.

objects in mirror are closer than they appear the crash comes into your vision / violently. you see it coming before it happens / but it’s too late. regret barrels ...

ugh you're poetry is STUNNING!! I really love the sense of urgency and vulnerability in #2; the repetition of "mother" is so poetic and heartbreaking. I also absolutely adored this ...

summers leaves scars on our skin summer & the sky is falling. we peel apart this heatwave, feverish day with our teeth, hungry to know the warmth for what it ...

homesickness she creeps up on you with her skeletal arms, suffocating, like an unwelcome season. when she settles upon you, she stays unmoving, as if to say you can’t leave ...

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the moon is bleeding grow into yourself in the glow of the traffic lights. let yourself get lost on unfamiliar roads & then return to the place you call home ...

if our memory was tangible it would be landlocked territory between the points of you and me. it would be days lost like loose change, a sweat-slick slipping of summer ...

Your poetry is absolutely stunning, niteowl! I can't believe I haven't left you a comment yet; I've thoroughly enjoyed every single one of your poems so far this April, and ...

Just wanted to stop by your thread to say how much I'm enjoying your poems this month, Euphory!! I especially love 4 and 5; 4 flows so well and has ...

ingénue if i could speak another language maybe i would know enough of myself to be able to call i what it is. not to leave anything up for interpretation. ...