Category: Poetry
Three of a Kind
For Faith and Praise I remember sitting at the make-up table in our room writing goodbye letters to mummy, daddy, and each of you, interrupted every now and then by a tear which would spill out until it finally gave way to something like a crying-out-loud – It sounds silly Read more
[for Milad:]
the last time we spoke, you demanded why I had not called you back (and in doing so, answered your own question) perhaps you simply feared losing a kindred soul in a city that devours but I, who had packed my Gypsy wagon countless times, and begun anew, chafed at Read more
Dear Steven
Dear Steven, I know I owe you some kind of response but I am at a loss for words. Yeah, me Wordless. I left our conversation without answering because I was blown. away. You were a first love. A part of me will always love you. Yes, reconnecting has reminded Read more
Too Fat to Drown
A distorted girl, too round around the edges no numbing mind still embedding into the malleable mush that her fat, clammy fingers cannot hold yet. But let us still stuff an oversized expectation of casual conformities, forgotten deformities into the thick folds of her feeble soul. Running and glazing, two Read more
Golden Years Heartache
The old man really loved his woman, clutching his arthritic hand around a curved cane confused without his love, lost without her. Mind decay, mixed with golden years heartache the love of his life tries to fade away, yet her lasting memory remains. I cry like a baby Read more