loose threads

a smattering of things

Category: Poetry

  • Coffee beans and wet inkEucalyptus and lavender Oyster shells and chestnutsPine needles and ivoryRipe cherries picked from the treeBlueberry stained fingersafter you plunder a wild bushSunscreen, mountain airLake water skinWood smoke cologneFive days gone since a shaveDirt under your nails on your shins in your hairYou are alive, triumphantan extension of the mountain’s peak reaching…

  • I wish I could takeback every single word Iever said to you