Sweet on the tongueA taste I would rememberI met you one DecemberUpon a sticky bench.Tajin sour rimSipping slow and carfulLicking every granule Late into the nightIce and spice and mezcalFlavor kissed my forehead Dizzy passion flag redI didn’t want to love You.ButWe triedOutsideThe pressure of the massesThe anger of the voicesThe spoiling in the sunWe… Continue reading El Olivida de la Paloma
Painting with the ashes Speaking what is dead.Writing out the sorrowInstead. Not the bloody distanceToo close to know it’s real.Writing out the sorrowTo feel.Drinking down the ashes.No one says a word.Writing out the sorrowUnheard.Beauty chases embersPraying for a light.Writing out the sorrowTonight.
How do you know what you are?When you cannot smell the rosesWhen you cannot hear the oceanWhen you cannot trust the momentConsume and cryUntrust alibi Dawned lullabyIs this what it’s become?So where is forward? Where paths trace backWhere dreams are blackAuthentic actsIt’s all a game It’s all the sameSystems of shameAwake. Escape. Submit.
Even after I occupied your time and mine and theirs For a really long time But then he knocked He crouched He waited For just the right time When I was alone It's not an excuse. Because it is my fault That’s just Eve’s blame The curse of the woman who can’t unhear the snake… Continue reading You left me alone
I just read one million words. To you. To me, from you.I won't take back, or give awayor put them somewhere else. They are yours. And they are you.And they won't erase. Deleted.But where to hold one million words?When there's years and more to say.You’ll have things I’ll never hearAnd you won’t read tomorrow's But… Continue reading Words I Wrote With You
Shining clear Focus golden Not a color Before the colors come Shading pink Where wispy white was formerly seen Sharpens orange Slicing and scratching Dripping red Sacrifice to shadows Bleeding out, hemorrhage Bruising purples Laced with black Tracing mountains Hiding seashores Lost shape and sight and clarity To night
Your hand warmed mine, discovering a turn in the road. Caught off guard, seeing that we were not traveling on the same path. Just now. Last April, we stumbled upon the tiny grass tufts underfoot. Not knowing then, they would grow and pull our hearts across a meadow, split and break them with the rush… Continue reading Kiss Me Cold
Only until when I thought there was forever But ever ever-wavered I believed a bit too long Only until when The light fades out of heaven Graven midnight mapping Just a matter unto time Only until when Resolve and Zeal are choking Evolution claims her dead Where when has won his fight Only until when… Continue reading Eternity
Rust and rubble. Dead air cries. Was that a whisper from her crushed wind pipe? Or the sallowed song of smoldered bark? Yesterday the sweet root bloomed. Today it's dripping ashes. He knew. She knew. It blew like fire. Wisdom didn’t stop it. Shading morning into mourning. Her dark blazed darker still. Her teenage hand,… Continue reading Dead Air Fool
Losing since her first breath In a place of nowhere Untouched alone and quiet Eye to eye, thigh to thigh What did she have to know To wander from that sound Choose was is or what could be Playing happy, weren’t you happy? Where did she have to go To find a place of meaning… Continue reading Finding Lilith
Cindy Koch 