by breathwords | Feb 8, 2019 | Drink In the Dark, Extended Exhalations
crystallized drops in a soft-pause-halt before they melt and seep, the red flower blooming in floating maroon down mean streets, gravity aims and pulls, tracing the pathway of veins made victim while garnet stains unfurl over pale white (she chases a free fall...
by breathwords | Feb 7, 2019 | Drink In the Dark, Extended Exhalations
we moved between crossed fates, your feather-light feet trespassing into my distant black hole world you sang your song of the sea to the dark heart in me made for sinking and left the dreamer in me exposed I don’t regret it though, dear poet you were the last sip of...
by breathwords | Jun 3, 2018 | Drink In the Dark
by breathwords | Feb 16, 2018 | Bittersweet Breaths, Drink In the Dark, Extended Exhalations
scarlet fever crashing through blue veins, ephemeral nights now crimson stained with ruby roses and cherry leather cuffs (the sting is a drug but it’s never enough) and she searches for answers in the shadows, stop motion stutter and start again, gently tracing the...
by breathwords | Feb 10, 2018 | Drink In the Dark, Extended Exhalations
She pricked her finger on the spindle of your thorns, fell prisoner to your irascible temper and lying eyes, the jewel in your own vainglorious crown, locked up behind the rage of daunting nights She felt you reach out for her to hold your mad hands as if to save her...
by breathwords | Sep 2, 2017 | Bittersweet Breaths, Drink In the Dark, Extended Exhalations
we waver between extremes, wielding words that cut deep, aimless angst and blinding hate, hysteria thrumming inside our veins (and we like to believe we can change, but underneath it’s all the same) and the pain runs thicker than blood, our minds deprived of...
