waiting on answers from the sky.

by breathwords | Sep 7, 2019 | Bittersweet Breaths, Extended Exhalations

we exist in this summer haze, days trailing into nights we sit beneath midnight skies painted obsidian and aubergine, sipping on Guinness and cider and talking about life and love and the ache of it all we keep waiting on this new moon to impart its infinite wisdom,...

road trip runaways.

by breathwords | Jul 13, 2019 | Bittersweet Breaths, Extended Exhalations

the sunlight burns in our rear view mirror, a canopy of flames following close behind we say goodbye to the bittersweet glow, our bodies exhausted from chasing too many unending horizons, brutal and beautiful and beckoning nights and days blending together, moonrise...

i seek to stay far from where you are.

by breathwords | Jul 4, 2019 | Bittersweet Breaths, Extended Exhalations

i once liked roses, but you reminded me that they have thorns and that honeyed lines carry a hidden sting you’re all poison and pearl, the cold caress of pretty words that bite, a kiss of the abyss with no love in sight and i found freedom in my own soul shimmer, all...

the light.

by breathwords | Jun 24, 2019 | Bright Breaths, Extended Exhalations

you followed me home, to the place where shadows bloom darkest, and let yourself in dressed with the sun’s secrets on your skin all crystalline beauty and pretty petals and green-garden-glimmer you looked like a heartbreaker with a smile that sparkled and those coffee...

sunrise.

by breathwords | Jun 4, 2019 | Bittersweet Breaths, Extended Exhalations

i stood beneath a shivering sunset, wrapped in the soft brutality of its fading light i listened to the night life heralding the coming stars, and i remembered all the wishes we’d made from cold balconies on lonely evenings, all the promises that were whispered even...

bliss.

by breathwords | May 28, 2019 | Bright Breaths, Extended Exhalations

i wake on sheets as soft as flower petals, tulips and tiger lilies pressed against bare skin the day tastes like orange blossom and amaretto, sunbrushed summer exploding on my tongue and there is no waiting for love see, i prayed for heaven, and it was delivered, all...