in my dream fish are catching flies with regularity. they buzz and drink and gasp – on tempo – in counts of eight. I’m best with quartets. ten-count sheet music always threw me for a loop. gripping the floor with all four corners of each foot, tottering toward the outer edge and just wishing, dreaming…
Category: alliteration
sometimes
we lose and scramble and can’t quite catch hold of anything. each year was a pillar, was a killer keeping us close and quiet teaming with words and sounds and empty guts. hearts slip sideways sometimes. and smile and want and plead, remembering holding on as time and life slide by. we are no longer,…
beats
beat, street, heat, feet, feat, complete, meet, meet, be, being together, passing time, making it, making out, making up, in, inside, glistening surfaces, running on and on forever, fever, with her, over her, over here, in me, out me, out, shout, drought, doubt, doubt, cover, cower, coward. lie, lie, high, hysteric, die, nigh, spy, on…
stalled
[old, old, old OG! and unfinished] Skank ‘n Pickle played at Slim’s that night. That night sleekly coated with honey and leather, leather vests and slow suede boots: black and creamy-coffee brown. That night the car stalled. And the slippery metal door handle jerked as I slammed it shut. Damn. I broke my nail; the…
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