9 posts tagged with "poetry"

I own like six nail clippers
and I honestly can’t
find
even one

The Laughter Lines poetry competition was run by Penstricken, a literary magazine. My poem "Sunset" was one of the top three runners up.

To hold hands
is to be in chains.

I made you in my image
so you could have everything I’m proud of.

You wave
at everyone.
usually goodbye,
sometimes hello.

If I had slept ten minutes, I had slept a lifetime.

Barlow beams as the escapement begins to rotate. His workshop is laced with tobacco and damp and the fading scent of industry.

A solitary gull
arced over stone,
mimicked
by a white vessel
far above and away
which could not flap its wings.