My face

It’s a skull-shaped pot of wilted flowers on the porch waiting for the tide to rise, pick it up, and take it away to Dreamland, where it belongs.

Posted in response to the challenge Simile.

wph

VT

17 years old

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  • Poetry

    By wph

    All I've Got

    The cardigan that my grandma wraps me in when I am cold; 

    Dusty piles of cards from someone who loves me; 

    Computer overheating with a two-thousand-million-word PDF scrapbook; 

  • Poetry

    By wph

    The Sweet Escape

    When I was a little younger than I am now, 

    I went home after school and wrote until bedtime.

    That was enough to take me into the stratosphere. 

    I'd play in the cloud for hours and hours.

  • Simon Peter

    I will tell you what I remember from high school, and I will tell you how you can follow in my sinful and lowly footsteps, that your blood might be as holy as mine.