by breathwords | Jan 29, 2021 | Bright Breaths
wild wisps of wind. heat-seeking breeze. sirroco. samoon. shamal. the way it smells. the way those smells carry memories. ocean waves or fields of flowers or fresh-baked bread. grandmother’s kitchen in the spring with the doors open and pie on the windowsill. the...
by breathwords | Jan 26, 2021 | Bittersweet Breaths, Extended Exhalations
night strolls towards day crawling inch by slow inch until amaranth blooms across the black because not even the dark plays for keeps love propels us to the moonlight but we are icarus when the sun rises we shake the embers wash off the soot until only the smell of...
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 | Jun 30, 2020 | Bittersweet Breaths
the world keeps changing / in the blink of an eye / and we keep finding ourselves / in places we don’t fit / with people who don’t understand us / let’s run away / follow me / to where the river leads / stay with me / and we will make our home / at the water’s edge /...
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...