We are fighting entropy
in our sleep.
We fold the blankets halfway over,
fill our brains with blue light,
fall asleep on our sides.
I wake up sweating in the suffocating dark.
I recognize your desperate face
in the moon's craters.
I find your fingerprints
on paper bags and my bedroom doorknob,
places that crackle with the feeling of you.
Oranges no longer smell like sunshine,
but of avenues,
the sticky sweet nectar of your eyes,
dirty rainwater, pouring down broken city pavement
after the first spring storm.
I'm not searching;
just noticing the way fragments of you
are splintered into my life.
I might be falling apart,
I might miss something I've never had,
I might accidentally love everyone who smiles at me,
but I refuse to believe I'm the opposite of chaos.
We’re all disordered,
it’s unavoidable.
Accidental Living
More by Love to write
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Self-Portrait at 18
I know it’s a bad title
but I’m carving these words
out of my compacted mind.
I’m trying to mix the mud of my thoughts
into something more coherent
than to do lists and quiet -
Authorized Entrance Only
There is no twilight in the city.
Only time we collect in our mouths,
sun peeling color off the streets,
rats skittering down sidewalks.
The fire escape has been painted gold.
It shimmers at night, -
Ellipse
The record down the hall sounds like the static of space, drawn out and fading, as if a comet streaked by, leaving a trail of sound in its wake.
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