Letters to the Stars - 08/20/16

Even riding on a light wave,
it'd take a couple hundred thousand days
to deliver this communique,
which is really just to say
"I love you"
a couple hundred thousand different ways,
as if that's all it would take
to set things back to the old ways
to clear the haze
and free the radio waves
no longer transmitting all the things I want to say.

All I want to say
is:

"I love you;"

"I knew
the minute I fell into
those blue eyes
that the skies
would never be as clear as
your smile;"

"I realize
the distance between us
is more than just miles;"

"There are galaxies
in my memoies
of us,
but I can't seem
to show them;"

"My words belong
beyond poems
and I know this now
but the only way to show this now
is poems
so I wrote them all down
and they all say 'I love you;'"

"I love you;"

"I miss you,
but can still hear your voice,
still taste your kiss,
feel the twitch of your lips.
Each imagined laugh
has me gasping
and grasping
for a reality
that disappeared
the last time I ran
my fingers through your hair.
Wherever I go,
you seem to be there,
in equations and textbooks
and ribbons and stars
and every time I look up
again
how far away you are
because it's still so hard
to believe
this much has changed."

Perseid - 08/19/16

Would that I could
slay monsters,
fight evil,
unspool injustice
like twine,
ride daring
to the rescue,
stand honored
with pride,

but here I am,
glowing briefly,
falling swiftly,
crashing silently
over the lake.

Maybe A Sunset - 08/18/16

rising like
an exploding star
over the horizon
obscuring
anything
else from my vision,
petrified,
terrified,
spellbound by blue eyes,
filled with
too many hurricanes
to translate
to text.

Supernova Skies - 08/17/16

No matter how far away
I accelerate,
this inverse-square potential
tries to pull me back
to that place,
tries to tell me I'm essential
to that space
of mind and time
is slowing down
with the weight
of these words around,
the pressure's burning
up the sun,
the vacuum's swallowing
every sound.
I'm paralyzed under
supernova skies,
keep your dreamy looks
and starry eyes
wrapped up in parting glances,
sucked into black hole romances
like your first slow dance is
gonna change your chances
of skipping out on goodbyes and
escaping the event horizon.

butterfly - 08/16/16

depart
on the wings of a monarch butterfly
gold and black against the hot blue sky
double back
for a memory you'd rather not see
playing on the big screen
surround sound engulfing everything
every word you want to write
every time you close your eyes
every song you want to sing
it's burned in the rings around your eyes
the lines on your thighs
from the heaving of your lungs
to biting your tongue
it is engulfing everything
when will you set it free?

VA - 08/15/16

sunny skies
out one window and
shaking storms
out the other
caught between lightning bolts
and beach sunsets
swallowed in the humidity of the swamp
gather the sprinkles of rain
and sew yourself a new story
three thousand miles away

just throw it away - 08/03/16

-a button with the portrait of a girl with thick glasses and bright red hair
-a tiny flower that I found on the ground, stepped over, had to go back for because it reminded me of her and I couldn't just leave it
-a tiny flower that I found on the stem, tried to talk past, had to go back for because it reminded me of her and I couldn't just leave it
-a paper star, no where near as stunning as she
-a bead the same color as her eyes
-my glittery red and silver paper bracelet
-the business card for the weird vegan restaurant downtown