As larvae, you couldn’t
Couldn’t look at me,
I was disgust, repugnance,
A reason to squirm your face
A reason to slow your pace, and scream
An abomination to your neonate
Revulsion to you,
I cared not.
In...
BUTTERFLY
30 September 2012
29 September 2012
CONFUSED
Hungry for something you can't have
Ignoring the tell-tale cries of the wind.
Heart beating at maddening pace
searching for already there answers.
Confused
No one can feel what you are
Inside of that paralyzed smile.
Each...
25 September 2012
I WILL BE THERE
When no one is there,
When no one remembers me,
I will be there.
When no one remembers my first step,
When no one remembers my first words,
When no one remembers,
I will be there.
When no one remembers my recital,
When no one remembers my first school day,
When no one remembers,
I will...
21 September 2012
WE ATE THE BIRDS by Margaret Atwood
We ate the birds.
We ate them.
We wanted their
songs to flow up
through our throats and burst out of our mouths,
and so,
we ate
them.
We wanted their feathers
to bud from our flesh.
We wanted their wings,
we
wanted to fly as they did,
soar...
