Down Your Face

Where I kissed you
dust
Your eyes twinkled
trails of rust

wasn't my fist that broke your smile that Novemeber morning

maybe treading water to stay afloat caused those three years of mourning

flung

can't cauterize
the torn veins when hearts break
momentum makes an orbit we can't shake

roller coaster and no motor
and no breaks

holes

I didn't know
that someone I didn't know
could smash my heart into
even smaller smitherines.

Three Strings

how many more days til I'm completely unraveled
I wonder
please
I need those braids now.

promise

I see the hint of a twinkle in my eyes
in these may photos where in february
it looked like every shred of happiness
had been vacuumed out of my soul

thank you

I promise I will not go to the photoblind where he carved our initials to surprise me
I promise
not yet

constellate

Love is sometimes an accident.

But I thought
a spider was weaving his web through the stars
and got to ours.

I'm scared that no one will smile at me like you did.

keep me in the cradle

keep me in the crib

rock me if you're able

keep calling me baby