Tag: love

• ATLONGLAST

  all of the resentment is gone.
  trickled out the holes in my heart
  shaped
  colander,
  the one sitting silent now in my mothers sink,
  leaving only air-dried, starchy, sticky love
  the kind that
  stands up on it’s own
  has a bit of back
  bone,
  the kind that’s
  known
  around town, eyes that meet, hat tips;
  the kind that
  brims.

  Sep-16-23

  love, poetry, quote

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• apostrophe

  you swooped in
  stole some part of the heart of me
  leaving behind a stitch, a scar,
  a patch; pieces indelibly swiped.

  today everyone knows me as my eighty percent and oh
  how i’ve simmered at the thought
  aggravated at you being the understood, the generally accepted;
  the catch in my breath, the white space.

  you’re the placard,
  the place-card; 
  in me,
  everyone knows what you signify. 

  but while for so long i’ve seen you as a pause,
  i’m suddenly realizing before you came along i was pieces;
  bits
  scattered and gapped and uncertain.
  
  thanks to you, i’m changed
  formed into a familiarity
  granted an ease
  opened up by being sewn shut.
  
  your goal was never my contraction,
  i see that now.
  you stuck around
  invested in me
  visibly
  permanently
  
  you’re all that has ever held me together.

  Sep-12-23

  love, poetry, quote

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