Month: March 2020

Chardonnay

Chardonnay

Let my table hold a place for your name,for years and years after you’re gone.With pearly eyes I would ask you to sharethis final, fragile meal with us. The beat switches, and there is frigid chardonnaywith ice; a time when you were so young I don’tquite believe it’s you. You live on in coffee cans,in …

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Another Cheating Story

Another Cheating Story

We became inseparable after I cheated and all words I spoke thereafter were breathed directly into her ear.  She said, Tell me what y’all did. she said, I want you to pretend you’re with her when we do it.  We stayed together mostly because we didn’t know how to live apart.  Peas in a pod. …

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Everything and nothing

Everything and nothing

Once everything, and then nothing,like mindfulness in the eye of a storm;the cradle swaying back and forth. Soft blue calm of a night remembered,one night meaning everything.Then flipped, with spit-flecked cheeks. The candle smells of vanilla and bergamot,and the shoe that no longer fits the fashiongoes out of style, recedes, dies. Everything held on one …

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