Take my breath away. Don’t give it back. Steal it with a thousand kisses. Lock my lips away In a tower filled with roses. Kiss me as we descend down to a field Of lilac and lavender. Our lips coming together while the world Shifts like sunbeams pouring through the clouds. Soak up my tears,…

The clock tolls twelve, heard all throughout town; In the streets, a fog rolls around. Near the street corner, a woman stands, Decked in Victorian dress with worrying hands. She seeks a partner for this eve, One willing and easy to deceive. When out of an ally stepped a tall gent, But she could have…

The dirt had dried on his overalls by the time he laid his wife into the ground. Tuberculosis, buried under a tree, any tree tall enough after the wind had leveled the land. He drove into town to certify her death, but beady-eyed kept driving past the flour mills and corn. His kid was crying.…

As I open the door to my childhood home one last time, I feel all these emotions rush through me. Icried. Tears of sadness because this was my childhood home. Tears of happiness aswell because of the new adventure and growth elsewhere that awaits. When I walk inside the house is bare nothing left but…

Why did you put those flowers in your hair? Don’t you know the stems would never grow? The dust would never collect in such a way that little figurines of clay would sit up, out of protest, and do a rain dance on the yellow page. They spread your ashes in the river water. They…