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Tupelo Jul 2015
Most days I find myself daydreaming
of my skull painting the walls of the room
Tupelo Jul 2015
You’ve got Orion in your eyes,
Shimmering and stumbling
all the way home
You with the audacity to live
To breath every northern wind,
Holding the ocean in your palms,
Arms stretched out waiting for
someone to grab on,
Journey to your moon and back again,
rub the cosmos on your gums,
Just like it was your first time
Tupelo Jul 2015
Ate dinner with a bouquet of fists,
All the palms opened wide
waiting for something to fill them,
5 courses of silent sins
And my stomach still rumbles,
Glasses filled to the brim with
watered down memories,
Hopefully they will wash the
virtue right out of my mouth
Tupelo Jul 2015
How do I love
all the empty
out of you?
Tupelo Jul 2015
Sun swept like father's knowing gaze,
Burned every bit of my body that showed,
Left me all red and pulsing
Felt like a fire underneath the skin,
It blazed for weeks than months,
Boiled the insides to the surface,
Left ash like december across my body,
Covered in all the scolding of summer,
And I still don't feel a thing
Tupelo Jun 2015
I swallowed the photographs like vitamins,
washed them down with rusty tap water,
I’ll tie bows on the parts we gave thanks for,
One day the roar of the atlantic will pull me under,
Make fishbowls of my lungs and fill them past the brim,
Leave this body for the fishes so their bellies stay full
Tupelo Jun 2015
Fire!
Fire all around!
Burn me now sinner woman
Burn this body to the ground
Teach my your sinning ways
Teach me all that soul
Shake those hips sinner woman
Take me back home with you,
Back to that southern heat,
Away from this northern rain,
Sinner woman teach me,
All those beautiful sounds
Ah Um's and Supremes
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