I love your balding head, and how when you sneeze, your pants soak with incontinence. Sometimes you don’t remember my name. On those days, a dark cloud of denial consoles my pain. The fourth time you served me wheat instead of rye, I devised a blueprint for a metallic mind. It would operate like clockwork, […]
Tag: poetry
Corpus Callosum
I sold two eyes to forget yours, hoping for a fair price. But losing and remembering are not the same thing, I know. My last day, I lay on Earth, stared up at the periwinkle sky. I thought about the boy who loved bleeding hearts. He witnessed them grow through the weight of time, took tedious notes as he […]
i quit coffee
for a challenge, this six year prescription, not addiction a challenge: quit coffee no withdrawal symptoms (lasted two days the savory scent got to me hooks in my nostrils till café con leche spilled down my open throat) i quit you for good reasons, too affliction, confliction, restriction– not addiction love […]
Wendy: A Self-Portrait at Fifty
It’s March.
Throat Bacon
I’m going through a phase.
Because I Am Practicing Patience
Among other things, I do love lists.
Sister Chromatids
When my bio professor starts talking, this is what I’m thinking about instead.
College
Two weeks in so many words.
Scientific Poetry
I don’t claim to be a poet, but I find this amusing nonetheless. This is as romantic as I get.
Just Thoughts 