This bit of mysteriousness emerged from somewhere… The scene of my surrender is one flight up from the sidewalk This is where I lived before the war that took you from me I couldn’t wait to leave but chose to stay My open-door policy trapped me inside I spent years here stashing away my secrets [...]
Tag: desires
A partial list of what I want (a poem)
The December 20th prompt in The Daily Poet: Day-By-Day Prompts For Your Writing Practice, by Kelli Russell Agodon & Martha Silano, is to write a poem ‘enumerating your wishes and desires’. I want the world they promised us when we were young: gleaming cities, flying cars, houses in the clouds, peace on earth in a perfect world— and jet [...]
an incomplete list of what I want (a poem)
Partly inspired by some of my recent reading… I want to put my hand on your shoulder as I walk past and have you look at me with that familiar smile I want to put my arms around you just because and sink into the embrace as though there were nothing else I want to [...]
