by breathwords | May 15, 2020 | Extended Exhalations
these sheets hold tightly to heavy bones i made my home in them while the sun rose and fell, wrapped myself up in this cocoon and waited for the night to drip stars from the sky i move within their light, escaping a skim of shadows by melding with the moon i tip toe...
by breathwords | Apr 29, 2020 | Bittersweet Breaths, Simple Sighs
hearts can be such pretty fools, always courting madness and trying to make a home in a b a n d o n e d spaces filled with unloved bones -ashley jane
by breathwords | Apr 26, 2020 | Bittersweet Breaths, Extended Exhalations
you sent me winter roses, a bouquet of dying petals and dried november leaves i cut myself on the thorns now i am bleeding violet in a world of gray still, thorns don’t hurt the way words do, and there is no sting as sharp as the one delivered by your riposte tongue...
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 | May 22, 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...