by breathwords | Apr 16, 2020 | Bright Breaths
i trespass into late hours listening for wings, waiting for something luminous to pierce the night she arrives draped in the last summer green, all gypsy magic with flowers in her hair she knows every secret the dark holds, and her eyes shimmer with the light of a...
by breathwords | Mar 31, 2020 | Bittersweet Breaths, Extended Exhalations
we tried to capture time in a bottle, thought we could rake up all our past lives, practice some secret spell to only keep the parts we liked in a sad attempt to avert change we thought, maybe, just maybe we could tilt the scales in our favor but life doesn’t work...
by breathwords | Mar 21, 2020 | Drink In the Dark, Extended Exhalations
i called him a white knight, this golden god with a tongue full of lies masquerading as promises he was more pretty parasite than beautiful beast, more monster than magical being he had eyes made of smoke and mirrors, and a kiss that tasted like truth he dressed in...
by breathwords | Mar 9, 2020 | Books Teach Me to Breathe
Mouthful of Forevers is a poetry book by Clementine von Radics that pulls at the heart strings. She reaches out to her readers, sharing her story in poems and prose. She manages to elicit emotion with every page, every line. Normally, I’m not a fan of romance or...
by breathwords | Jan 5, 2020 | Drink In the Dark
a decade descends into yesterday’s ashes, minutes moving rapidly despite the debris you say we must push forward, that the lesson is in the journey, that each second brings clarity even when the dawn is gray and smoke-stained because time is a phoenix but i am not...
