"And in my first year of college I was with this girl and I called it a thing."

I loved you most when you were bold and bashful

wildeyed at 4 am

and brilliant

up late in the kitchen

sniffing daikon and shrugging

tasting everything

i loved you most when we were two warm bodies

moving together through the night

fitting perfectly

wrt handstands and schoolyard acrobatics

i was seven when i learned

to fear how hard the earth would be

if i fell

April 3rd, 2015

I want to give myself to the earth
commit to her lessons
learn softness and openness
generosity and balance
when to retreat
and when to blossom

Sea Poem II

I surrender myself to the sea

the salt of infinite lives
washing over me

I can forgive a little sand
lingering in my hair

artifice

we speak in riddles and doublespeak

and half-finished glances

i am tired of never saying what i mean

and hoping you understand

me:

coy but ready

you:

distant but yearning

everything is artifice

and we are just playing parts

Day 3-Write about interpersonal relationships and the games we play to avoid vulnerability.

Today was a good day, but...

I have not quite burned down this house

let’s call it a coat that I have hung up in the summer months

a house feels too large

and too final a thing

and I fear that winter will find mind me

and I will be all to ready to drape myself in old sorrows.

Day 2- Write a poem that addresses at least one other poem and/or poet by name. You might imitate, parody, disagree with, champion, or generally respond to the other poem and poet.

I chose A Good Day  by Kait Rokowski

Housekeeping

I'm about to post a bunch of poems from the various half-finished poetry challenges I've started for 2015. Enjoy.
Promptly in January
For My Girl April 2015