Tagged: drown

by week two, we are

by week two, we are
begging
for less excitement,
waiting
to be buried
under a
weighted blanket,
to drown
in a couple
more months of hot
chocolate
.
20210111:2047
y

it’ll be some time

it’ll be some time
before we put our heads
under
the water
again –
pretend that we are
not also drowning
.
20200628:2351
y

when we were water,

when we were water,
we didn’t have tongues to hold
back the words, trading

secrets effortlessly, with
abundance approaching drowning
.
20170806:1105
y

drowning doesn’t look

drowning doesn’t look
the way one suspects it looks
every time, it takes

something as hard and soft as
water to appear uplifted
.
20170714:2344
y

the heart, troubled, can

the heart, troubled, can
fool itself and companion
organs to help speed
its demise. it’s a lose-
lose situation, stretching to
compensate, stretching
to compensate –
in the end, our
bodies are altogether
witness, criminal, and
location of a drowning
.
20170323:2215
y

when i consider

when i consider
fighting without
you, the oversight
stings me – sky
breaks rank from
horizon, an eighth
ocean discovers
my lungs, and
i am a micro-
second too late
to assume
crash position
.
20110213:2113
y