22 Monday Dec 2014
Posted in Poetry
Relentless introspection is to _____ as dripping is to _____.
A) self-discovery, stalactite formations
B) self-hatred, Chinese water torture
Trying to please others is to _____ as boiling water is to ______.
A) selflessness, steaming tea
B) insecurity, steam burns
Worrying is to _____ as mosquitoes are to _____.
A) self-improvement, the ecosystem
B) self-hatred, malaria
19 Friday Dec 2014
Posted in Blog, Poems in Progress
Going on my first date in a few months later today, and I started writing (not that the poem is just about that, of course). I don’t know how much of the poem is salvageable, but I do like a line or two. I may even keep them!
Everything you want is on the
other side of fear.
but what is that?
Acid or aphrodisiac
adrenaline, a heart attack
the color of the wooden sky,
the knowledge that you live
to die.
Is fear what gets you out of bed in the morning,
or what keeps you in?
Fear, fear, fear
a helpful sin
(in small doses.)
18 Thursday Dec 2014
Posted in Poetry
18 Thursday Dec 2014
Posted in Poetry
who can smell
her body’s own perfume?
termites gnaw ventricles
into afghani caves
labyrinths bleeding with would-be freedom fighters and
misguided martyrs
listen now to the strange cadences,
to the screams that reverberate through you,
standing waves in your heart strings.
bitterer than iocaine, this
wormwood.
and like worms in wood
it makes you, invisible
creator.
but fear bleeds too.
bite a coin–any coin. (all coins
are fool’s gold.)
no copper in the penny but the
shimmer in your eye.
