I Like to Keep My Mind Beautiful. {poetry}
Our eyes roll to the sky in unison. She likes to keep her mind beautiful. You'd believe it if you saw it. How both our eyes roll to the sky.
Browsing Tag:
Brittany Connors
Why You Might Want to Use Russian Stacking Animals in Post-Rape Counseling. {poetry}
Cheers to totem animals in healing, they've become quite hip in the New Age movement...Animals don't hide when they're wounded. They roar or growl or snarl.
For the Women like You. {poetry}
She held his gaze.
She told me she had put on all
the layers of clothes
she could,
before he told her
to get
in the back
of the truck.
A jacket over a jacket over a jacket.
His chin-drool.
She held his gaze steady.
Korea. {poetry}
You’d tell me in between chopstick bites that you were from Korea. Originally.
It was why you liked this sushi we were always eating.
Some Common Secrets Of Her Essence: Blues.
Did it all change because her eyes were colored Blue?
Did it shape everything?
I Have No Wish To Be Careful In Love: From The Insides Of A Minnow Bucket. {poetry}
Everyone keeps telling me to be careful in love.
But it’s my own dream after all.
It’s my own dream…
Love Isn’t Meant to Be Chicken-Scratched At. {poetry}
Sometimes I’d come in
Just to make sure
he hadn’t floated up to the ceiling
And to ask him
what else
he could tell me about love.
Starfish Story. {poetry}
As her legs buckled,
Her arms flailed upwards into the sky and she splayed out before she fell,
like a starfish in her own right.
Give Me a Beat. {poetry}
Give me a beat,
a beat, a beat
Tap your foot against the floor boards
Find some drumming in this heat.