by breathwords | Nov 15, 2020 | Bittersweet Breaths, Extended Exhalations
it is raining again within me it a l w a y s rains in september i become a horizon filled with memories and sobbing skies and you, well i doubt i even cross your mind while you stir in storms that wake my bones, the very ones you left battered and bruised you pour...
by breathwords | Aug 24, 2020 | Drink In the Dark
these nights are slowly killing me i called for you again. do you see me sinking? i am drowning off the dream coast, drifting in a sea of talking ghosts (it’s your voice that is going to swallow me whole) how am i to breathe in this ocean of memories? how am i to swim...
by breathwords | Jul 17, 2020 | Bright Breaths, Extended Exhalations
we stand in awe, the land’s own symphonic, siren song holding us superficially frozen in place we swim in the surreal of a holographic lake, sink into a whisper of wonder that leaves us weightless – transported – enchanted everything is connected we float...
by breathwords | Jul 15, 2020 | Bright Breaths
bewildered and bewitched, we unravel the night, stitching it back together with threads of light from the wings of aphrodite as she rises, a shining beacon of beauty moving in the company of flowers, scarlet camellias and purple orchids and burgundy bougainvillea we...
by breathwords | Jul 10, 2020 | Bright Breaths
i wear your words around my neck, a rosary of letters and lines scored into sacred stones, beads of viridian and violet and verditer twisting between my fingers i recite each one like a prayer, an evangelical invocation, a whisper of reverence your poetry anoints the...