LadySpark

X. your chasm kiss me clumsy, almost not a kiss at all so that i can forget the sound of your ribs shattering on the floor after i dropped them ...

IX. Incomplete (Four) the sound of ribs clattering to the floor. ... the feeling of ghosts passing through my skin ... kiss me clumsy, almost not a kiss at all. ...

VIII. giving voice to 2 am thoughts sometimes you wish you could wake up dead. a taped-up heart discarded like a missing shoe, broken pieces on the floor scattered and ...

VII. Incomplete (Three) the way your feet move when you're trying to go nowhere is a very telling thing. ... a cowboy standing on the edge of an ellipses ... ...

VI. i'm so glad my cowboy doesn't know i watch him. when i watch him the cobwebs draw by from my eyelashes, and i can suddenly see the rocky heart ...

I’m not saying any of this is good, or even close to good— but I love seeing these new themes pop up and seeing how they’re fitting into making my ...

V. Incomplete (two) i wrote 100 pages of the same name before i finally gave it up as a bad job and moved on. … you haven't been back in ...

IV. my last note before goodbye was a C# and if i should go quickly, do not worry. i slipped away on feet cushioned by beds of moss, with eyes ...

III. romancing the girl from west virginia Screen Shot 2022-04-03 at 6.50.19 PM.png after all this time spent carving your name between my parentheses, at the end of sentences (a ...

These past two poems are the first bit of new writing, rather than editing, that I've done since 2018. My goal for NaPo this year is to focus on creating ...

II. incomplete. i wrote poems about the way you feel when you move beneath my skin. your name, over and over again, until there's no reasoning with myself anymore. ... ...

I. a fever you can't sweat out. there's something to be said for the bravery that exists in my shadows. every night, the wolves come and the overgrown vines reach ...

my fingers wrapped around your words, choking the last bit of breath out of them. 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 Can a poet still be a poet if she hasn't ...

Short Assignment wrote for ~15 minutes today, just to do a little ice breaker. Used the prompt "the day when the seasons change" and just freewrote from there (no editing). ...

Reading & Writing To get back in the swing of things with writing, I decided to pick up a book or two that might help me begin. The first book ...