Tag: poetry
Sweet (an old toothache poem)
Slow thudding, thumping pain struck teeth, enamored by frozen sweetness, ravaged – to the weak enamel, pitied to the ringing core, Rhythmless, it was just an empty… Read more “Sweet (an old toothache poem)”
A Battle of Will
take exception to the carnall cross the meridian, cross the metaphore. ease against it cross and ease into its sex of secrets, into the flash-collapse of flesh… Read more “A Battle of Will”
Pillar Pill box
A pillar, a pill box color coordinated to days of the weak and frail — thins my hair and blood, and floods my liver and kidneys —… Read more “Pillar Pill box”
In Between
I am standing in between rooms, in between the shallow end and start of doorways. In the sheet rock, plasters and pink puff insulation pieces. I am… Read more “In Between”
I took them all
I took some pills a while ago then a while ago, more and a while ago again. I found my friend I found a pause of silence… Read more “I took them all”
Lesions & Bruises (Sestina)
I am not weak always — often my mind has lesions and bruises, welts of dark void that are fresh imprints of light headed thoughts – also… Read more “Lesions & Bruises (Sestina)”
Synchronized Fissure (Sestina)
Our souls breach at once to sunder the time, and we darklings sense awkward pauses split out, of fractured stints on souls not stricken wet yet, but… Read more “Synchronized Fissure (Sestina)”
Silence
I want to say how comfortable it is to be in silence, to sit in it and dwell in it, and spin it ’round and ’round. But… Read more “Silence”
SASHA SMITH 