December 2011
21 posts
Bindall: Actual Children’s Answers to The Question... →
bindall:
“Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your French fries without making them give you any of theirs.” - Chrissy, age 6
“Love is what makes you smile when you’re tired.” - Terri, age 4
“Love is when daddy makes coffee for papa and he takes a sip before giving it to him, to make…
When I hear your name
I taste blackberries
bury their pretty faces into
the spaces I saved for you
No part of me is safe,
when my tongue paints itself in the blood of
the wounded berries half believes
it’s name is your name
the way I pick you up with no hesitation and stitch you into my throat so when I open mouth
Blackberries fall down my lips like spring just kissed me on accident...
Watch my finger tips forget they are tips as they tip toe into your body, all house and holy, the touch begins and beckons the infinite as I fit my hands those heavy bricks I use to lift the hints of light left in your breath, Serenades full of sugar make lemonade out out of your skin and fix the scars with all the sweet, I keep keeping secrets underneath your collar bone, my lips leave a bow, the...
Act Reckless/Think Before Speaking: a statement of... →
oddballsdontbounce:
(for my creative writing class, we had to write our own “statement of poetics”, basically about what we think poetry is and does/should be and should do)
I am of the belief that naming is a claiming act- that, in giving something a name, in choosing the word(s) through which I will continue to…
WatchYou kiss me I kiss you.
