Cool

Daisy said it best:

You always look so cool. Yet

summer never ends. 

Rooftop

It is no rooftop,

but I knew you would begin...

and not complete it. 

Cross My Heart

I can promise you:

This isn’t a love that ends.

I will find you soon.  

Ever After

They spoonfeed us 

The Story:

easy love, 

small obstacles, 

happiness

ever after

and yet. 

There are moments 

that love 

does not come easily, 

days 

that I 

do not understand 

your heart, 

when my hand 

hangs 

cold and lonely 

without yours. 

So I will be patient, 

and kind, 

and I will not keep counting 

your flaws. 

And if that is all I know 

of love, 

Well, maybe that 

will be 

enough. 

Rebound

I know your bed won’t stay empty forever- 

Your pillow will hold a new head

Truth? Yeah it hurts that you moved on so quickly ,

When I still am grieving the dead. 

Summer Solstice

It feels the same, though:
the longest day of the year.
Each day is too long.

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Your ghost stays with me:
each story that I hear, Love,
every song I sing.

Home Is Where The Heart Is

Another night spent
in a cold and lonely bed.
When will you be home?

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This 

is my happy place:

my leafy canopy,

lazy waves,

bird trills and

sunpink skin.

There are no car alarms 

here:

no sirens,

no screams, 

no sorrow.

I coax my hair 

out of pretzel knots

and breathe.

And breathe.

And 

brea

-the. 

The Sun is Also a Star (Found Poem)

Maybe I was wrong:

we don’t need act 2 and 3. 

Act 1 Love is best.

Druggie

Cocaine 

elicits the 

same level of 

euphoria 

as love. 

Dopamine, 

serotonin, 

oxytocin, 

vasopressin... 

love is 

chemicals 

and 

coincidence. 

Blue Goggles

This morning,

the water was 

frigid, 
constricting her courage 
until she could no longer find it

like her blue goggles, 

no, not those blue ones, 

the OTHER blue goggles- 

and her swimsuit was 

too tight and 

too long and 

there were 

too many people 

cheering her name. 

And I understood: 

the feeling of 

everything not right, 
too much of 

something and 

not enough of 

everything else- 

how unbalanced that can feel, 

as if you might trip 

and the world would keep 

spinning away from you 

as you grasped for 

the nearest asteroid, 

desperate for anything 

to hold onto. 

And it occurred to me, 
my darling,

you are my blue goggles. 

Nothing can be 

quite right 

without you. 

Best Friend

Best and greatest friend,
You who knows each errant thought,
You are all I need.