Reach

Stumbling undressed
Blackout drapes
Would I be eclectic enough
If i finished my stays

Scratching at the back door
A stray
Cameo in my dream
You nearly said you loved me the other day

Just out of reach

Crumpled ballerina
face shrouded in envy
trying not to see you with my eyes shut

Being crushed
Though you’ll never know
Your rejection may crucify me

To adore you from a distance and look for you forever

Just out of reach

Hung up

I’ve been hung up on leaving you
Like hanging onto the floor of the bathroom
or hanging up a picture we drew
For a girl you crossed in an apology I walked you through

I waited by the mailbox, I’d showed you what to do

sever – you let me go against my nature to save my dignity
sever – I hope you feel the things you’ve embarrassed me out of saying
It’s the most you’ll know of what I’d wanted them to mean

Cardless to keep any words worth writing
so I didn’t give you mine
And I had left it at home ahead of time
I get small and flimsy when I feel I can read your mind

I awaited a revelation, I gave you some of mine

sever – you let me go against my nature to save my dignity
sever – I hope you feel the things you’ve embarrassed me out of saying
It’s the most you’ll know of what I’d wanted them to mean

I am piling both of our blankets on top of me So I can stop shivering and sleep

Metric 2

I missed you (your laughter) through bared teeth
Seeing red in a rosy cheek

you know something I don’t by now
What is a wire tightly wound?

Please I know you’re just like me

Seeing red in a rosy cheek
you’re not as sentimental as you used to be

My good friend

If i don’t see you again
I’ll have worn myself open
Lock up all of the letters
so i don’t remember
And the shapes they burned will never return

we made the center look bigger and I let it slip through my hands
and you may never feel that way ever again
and I’d understand

I think i’m hearing things better
word on spring loaded lever
I’ve been writing about this again
i’ve lost a lot this year
and it isn’t even half over

we made the center look bigger and I let it slip through my hands
and you may never feel that way ever again
and I’d understand

Trading places, got there a minute too late
you’ve been hurt into your solitude just as mine’s cracked away
but where do you leave the ones who love you?
though I know you know me too much to

But I’ve so much to tell you and
I miss my friend

we made the center look bigger and I let it slip through my hands
and you may never feel that way ever again
and I’d understand

My good friend

Told you

Ancient man thinks he has so much control
But the marble floor is cold
Taking somebody else’s prescription a little too far
you eat what you are

if ever we are left alone
Do not look at me like that
I told you before I go
You really can’t take anything back

Your shadow on the sidewalk
looks smaller but you look at him more
I am part of you now like it or not, but also you are
People are permanent after all

if ever we are left alone
Do not look at me like that
I told you before I go
You really can’t take anything back

I told you

Winter

A coffee mug marked with hearts
Bottled and kept for winter

content to imagine you beside me
or hanging down from lights we strung up together

To reach you or mean much
to reach you or mean much

I’m hardly who i said i was
I’m hardly who I said i was