poetry – Page 66 – FEMININE COLLECTIVE

Archives of My Mind

August 18, 2017October 13, 2018 Rebecca Charlotte

I’m the archivist of my mind
But I lack the proper training to keep a clean house

Arsonist

August 16, 2017October 13, 2018 Paakhi Bhatnagar

I see a corridor and I see it with all its edges. I throw a burning ember on the wooden floor and the mustard wallpaper suddenly shudders; the shroud that left my room uncovered now melts and slithers into my mouth. It soaks into my throat and curls into my Read more

Five Year Gap

August 16, 2017August 13, 2021 Judith Staff

Five-year gap It could have been ten, I was so young then Just sixteen, you were just ‘old’ Policing my youth, like you always knew better Me and Molly, your mall rats We partied late into the night and brought you coffee at sunrise You scolded our morning-after-those Wildberry Vodka Read more

Splintered

August 14, 2017September 14, 2018 H.M. Jones

until you splintered under my skin,
and the blood rushed to fight infection,

Every Woman

August 11, 2017October 13, 2018 Christina Strigas

I like to read books
and watch the sunset
pull dirt out of sentences.

Garden Of Solitude

August 9, 2017October 13, 2018 Marie Scampini

I was always choosing between a relationship and my cherished
and essential alonement
my connection to Self
denied for dozens of years
choosing validation by whomever wanted to fuck me

Waif’s Fear

August 9, 2017October 13, 2018 Merima Trako

Words fly on the midnight sparks
They land sideways burning our dust
I stand on the edge, my breath a stream
My step a noose, a lonely dream.

Tempter Scenario

August 9, 2017October 13, 2018 Margret Avery

However clear, it is
always unclear to hit the
mark of unquestioning
compatibility that will
some day make history
in the circle of
unemployed emotions
while keeping the door
unlocked, with vague
promises, unfinished
sentences, and laced with
a lingering scent of
the past