Flashes of blue

Maybe there is life
in this small, sardonic smile
that flirts with your lips
while you contemplate promiscuity
in forgiveness
as I play with words, attempting to
sway your emotions
and drive you far, far away from here
far from the limited imaginings,
from the confined spaces of stark reality
and into a world where
flashes of blue
inhabit the brown spaces between
red and yellow magnetic leaves
that [...]

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Surface secrets

From an early age on, they knew never to speak of it. It wasn’t taught to them – these things you do not, cannot teach, but it was implied. Implied in the curves of the commas and the slopes of the apostrophes that punctuated every simple syllable; implied in the lazy languid expressions worn on [...]

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Awkward feelings

There are sad, awkward feelings
floating precariously
on the unstable edges of our conscience
they dabble in the earliest of sunlights –
in that frail realm between night and day,
but grapple with the fragility of happiness
and struggle to surrender to the eternal strife
that marks the search for felicity
And as the day recedes into dusk –
in that frail realm between [...]

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