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It hurts us all to have half a millions families in the condition you describe. Much more likely to need social services, much reduced voluteering, participation in community, wont be paying taxes, wont be buying from small businesses, cant support community or family.
While enriching those responsible, making them more capable of enshittifying more lives.
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it pulls through my center
a loose thread
the knot gets caught behind my heart
and every beat aches
you hold it in your fingers,
toying with
the strand
not knowing the power woven through
your hand
I won't keep long this way
leaking from an invisible wound
wound too tight 'round you -
afternoon.
dish damp with frizzed hair
the music thumps and my heart
with it, disheveled. -
communion.
in the clear cold air
we are making misty ghosts
with our mingled breath -
bad weather.
my mistakes seep out through my skin,
get soaked into the bare earth
beneath my feet
climb persistently up branches, brambles
and burst from overladen clouds again
a hail of failure and folly falling like rocks on heads, mine especially
to remind me i can never be rid of them -
underneath all this stupid fucking skin and sinew wrapped around the bones
organs
tissue
i am just electrical pulses
firing
misfiring
hormones and proteins fucked up by nature or nurture or epigenetic alterations
signals screaming into the air
See?
flashing lights
emergency flares
hold me still and soft and please—
Please—
tell me you see
me -
onomatopoeia.
typing “blunderbuss”
on vintage keys that report
expresses the mess#TinyVerse #Poetry #Haiku #SmallPoems
#WindowFriday #FensterFreitag #Photography -
under this umber earth lie the bones of all who ever walked it
now skittered over by little legs, digested by snipping jaws
in the grasping groans of roots flowing,
growing
new life from old
in a land with no light
as above on a blanket in the grass
i read billy collins to the birds -
small/enormous.
today i am cells
multiplying
where they are not supposed to
tissue marred and warped
by scars
pain
and pain
and pain
and pain
symptoms and diseaseis this human?
being so small?
and feeling all the weight
of malady
crushing me?#ChronicIllness #Endometriosis #TinyVerse
#SmallPoems #Poetry -
mine.
there is a lump
at the back of my throat and
a tightness of sharp stones
crushing my lungs
caving in
my heartand i will not cry
or let my arms reach out
to grasp what is not
mineno
i will swallow
rattle
and hobble along
trying to breathe deep again
with razor fire rocks
in my chestwhile silently to the world
but bloodcurdling
to my mind
a sob breaks
through the cracks
and wails on the wind
between my earsmy heart
oh, my heart -
to wake and walk the day
thinking perhaps you have
perambulated into the penumbra of your
melancholy
at last
but no
your legs haven’t the length to
outpace the shadow
your lungs haven’t the breath to bear
its grave pressure
so you put down your pen as the dark
swallows again -
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fruit stand
i was careless, missed
the blighted berry; it ate
the lot, breakfast ruinedThanks to @tanweerdar for the #MastoPrompt
#Blight -
malady.
I can feel the dark in a way few can
it covers me, not a blanket
a pillow
made of gravity and meant to stop memy cells dying, apoptosis yes
but also
the twinkling of my lights, my electricity
snuffed out
methodicallywhispers like smoke floating in my skull
that become
a thunderous roar
what are you even for
wreck the hulland carry me
one time more
arms crossed
into the waiting jaws
of the dark
that closes my eyes
and cries
victory at last -
the piano was always out of tune
each note reverberated
atonally
my chords were a cacophony
of bird calls and circus elephants and train whistles
but i was allowed
to crash and plunk and thunk the keys anyway
and that’s how you know
someone loves you—
they let you make noise -
Autumn’s shimmering
goldfish tails of light and air
swishing through the trees -
you can endure
the privations of life as a statue
for awhile,
the stillness
the cold
brief glances
and the lack
of warm arms around your pale skin.
but
too long and you forget
it isn’t how you are meant to be.
you wonder why
you claw so at the stone,
why your fingers still bleed.Statue of young woman on grave marker,
Dunlap Cemetery, Kansas
2020 -
sometimes the dread sits too heavy
on my chest,
like the tinkling of a lullaby
wound up with a key,
playing its cycle
down
and
down
into slow silence
after that final forlorn stutter of
incomplete melody
winding it up again is never the same
the end has happened, you see -
dulcinea
close your eyes, you say
your lips against my skin
taking my hands in yours
and cuffing my wrists with fingers
and thumbs,
holding them behind me
I’m sure you can hear my heartbeat in
the naked air calling your name
because you trace mine back, your
warm tongue tasting each letter
between my legs
honey sweet#SmallPoems #TinyVerse #Poetry
Thanks to @tanweerdar for the #MastoPrompt
#kiss -
slip
you miss one step and
now cannot believe that you
ever knew the dance. -
block
the cursor blinks in
black expanse. i quail at the
blankness of my mind. -
the violin screams
until you learn to tame it,
trusting, unafraid#SmallPoems #Haiku #TinyVerse
#PoetryThanks to @tanweerdar for #MastoPrompt
#violin -
my brows furrow like crooked garden
rows
calamitously tensed
twitching,
untended
like the summer she was
too arthritic to pick beans
the gnarled mess overtook everything
worry does that
a frown and a monster that sits on the
chest
snarling all my dreams in its prickly
tangles -
After ingesting
the foxglove, to save your heart
you must eat a sheepDigoxin defanged
by immunoglobulin
in the sheep’s serum.#TinyVerse #SmallPoems
#Haiku #PoetryThanks to @tanweerdar
for the #MastoPrompt
#antidote -
My mind is written
over with your name; it fills
every corner. -
i am emptied of all meaningful thought
just a corridor
where the clatter of a plate
or the scraping of a chair echoes,
shriek sharp,
cutting the eardrums
and scrambling the space behind the
eyes
cluttered alphabet tumbling loose and
clacking
against my chattering teeth#TinyVerse #SmallPoems #Writing
Thanks to @tanweerdar for the #MastoPrompt
#shriek -
CW: Photography
Two skies, worlds
2016 -
CW: Photography
Two skies, worlds
2016 -
CW: Photography
Two skies, worlds
2016