The light was too bright for me last night. My eyes turned red and watery. You were too much for me to fathom. Too much to take in all at once. I returned to my bed, bleary and burnt. Even the morning sun doesn’t have such an effect. Doesn’t leave me scrambled and new.
Late Night Surprises and Early Morning Revelations
More by Geri
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Inevitable
crying over a simple email
the lasts build a lump in my throat
last time beaming onstage
signing yearbooks
wearing a stiff blue skirt
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Battle Cries
One girl’s lanky frame against the dark turf field,
lit up by fluorescent lights
She saunters toward the building
holding another girl’s hand
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Surrender
The screen stares back at me:
9:30 pm,
an unfinished assignment,
a deadline due.
My weary chest heaves a heavy breath.
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