• tell your friends about the time you were enchanted by a witch
    how she lured you with words, a siren with no songs
    how you fell into the soft deep moss of her eyes and
    couldn’t escape (not that you wanted to)
    show them the places she kissed and
    the blackberries left behind to ripen in the sun

    -rjm
  • You are a rugged coast and glacial scars,
    I am red dirt and tornadoes.
    Was your childhood as wild and unsupervised as mine?
    Do you look back on all the times
    you could’ve died and wonder
    what angels saved you that day?

    -rjm