Tag: regret

• April 1, 2019

  Fire Starter

  I walked my dog here from the time the rain smelled of flowers through heated summer pains. We grew old here, grey hairs cropping up like pine needles. Soon we were covered with avalanches of them, prickly and sticky like aches and pains. Needles gave way to winters and snows heavy with human sorrow. I…
• October 19, 2018

  Can’t Think

  I can’t think in this room With every regret I’ve ever had Staring back at me
• June 2, 2018

  Poker Face

  We’re standing opposite one another. Me and the boy. Me, with insecurities spilling to the pavement and tears running my spirit dry, and the boy, with his faltering understanding and screaming eyes. I draw my lips into the best line I can manage. I quell my tears, reserving them to the well settling in my…