And then my stomach knots like an insane carnival ride to the moon, and I bite my lip to keep the pain from rolling down my face because these savage sentences keep stabbing me in the back. I want you to bury these letters in the quicksand we made so that I can forget you […]
I walked in with eyes shut. I knew nothing of what this would become, only that it made my heart move and boil, and my skin burn with the memory of your touch the moment your fingers left me. I kept my eyes closed for awhile and that was okay, fine, normal, until a phone […]
It’s harder to write than to key because our handwriting shows our pain in the strokes. Wavy, inconsistent, faltering letters reveal our tragedy, our heartache. The reader feels the tears in each curl and hesitation. Hearts laid bare in a handful of lines, and you have this pain in your hands. Each time you read […]
The stairs point down instead of up and I keep seeing stars floating in patches of green grass mixed with ocean sand. This song sounds unreal and like the shattered magic that we used to hold between our hands. I’m unclear as to where the pieces went when you left so the words are muddy […]
Maybe one day you will come back. Maybe one unsuspecting day, I will wake up to new mail sent from you. Maybe one day, I will come around the corner to see your smile, the bright if your eyes. But it’s more likely that I won’t. It’s more likely for the planet to plummet out […]
A drizzle at first, blinding at last, this love is but a reckless force crashing, sending drops flying and bodies floundering through bottomless puddles of remorse-driven lies. This prevarication astounds, dropping these jaws to the dusty floor littered with promises we forgot to keep and pride we forgot to remember. And I stand like a […]
Because of you, I learned to worship the sea, to submit to its tides pulling me asunder. Because of you, I learned to not hold back, to not allow doubt to trap me in fear. Because of you, I learned to find beauty in the broken, to see beyond the flaws scarring our bodies and […]
You’re deleting yourself from the world and it feels like you’re deleting yourself from me all over again. And maybe you are. Maybe you found out that I’m obsessed and crazy and so unstable that all I do is look at a page I shouldn’t be able to see from an account that only exists […]
Life’s broken paths seemed only one, not two, so I walked not knowing of the choice. And now I find myself attempting to find myself on the path that leads to you. Sometimes I’m out of body, floating in a haze of unreality, of mist and dreams. And then I’m grounded, a stone damming a […]
Tangles of naked vines cling, twist, encircle her limbs in tight suffocation. Strangled, trapped, she breathes in sticky air and never lets it go. There in her flora prison, she gives up. Freedom is untouchable. Satisfaction is so far from her grasp that she holds onto the bars of this cell in defiance of air, […]
TBI Survivor Story
One Hell of an Apprenticeship
He was so ugly that everybody died. The end!
An engineered explosion of erroneous exposition.
~chaos with coffee☕
Fun for the whole asylum!
Darren Hawbrook
Get Your Keys, Grab Your Coat.
A rather droll affair
Shattered long ago...
Understanding someone’s way with words isn’t as simple as you think.
poetry w/teeth
Two old men write poetry, short stories and other things
Where are you John Bender...
My Imagination is the DEVIL on my shoulder
No, this blog is not about love.
The Works of Lori Carlson
