by breathwords | Feb 8, 2019 | Bittersweet Breaths, Extended Exhalations
i steep fading memories in wildflower tea, walk through vacant rooms where stale air clings to my skin, the smell of moths and medicine, reminders suspended above, empty frames on amber walls in a house filled with little more than silence you made saying goodbye an...
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 | Feb 6, 2019 | Bittersweet Breaths, Extended Exhalations
shine-bright-shimmer, a sharp cut of light ricocheting off chandeliers of crystal ice, we follow its warning, shards of frosted ink scrawled across the sky, foreboding written out in this holy silence telling of how darkness still lingers in the hallows from where we...
by breathwords | Aug 4, 2018 | Extended Exhalations
My first book of poetry – Love, Lies and Lullabies – is now available on Amazon: http://a.co/i2G1GYs 💜 Love, Lies, and Lullabies is a collection of poetry about relationships and the emotions that come with them. It is written for the lovers and the...
by breathwords | Jun 11, 2018 | Bittersweet Breaths, Extended Exhalations
the face in the mirror wavers, unable to hold your gaze while you catalog every flaw and search for minute imperfections (I told you there are none to find) you see the shadows when light is all that pours from your veins, all the reasons you matter safely stored in a...