by breathwords | Feb 8, 2019 | Drink In the Dark, Extended Exhalations
crystallized drops in a soft-pause-halt before they melt and seep, the red flower blooming in floating maroon down mean streets, gravity aims and pulls, tracing the pathway of veins made victim while garnet stains unfurl over pale white (she chases a free fall...
by breathwords | Feb 16, 2018 | Bittersweet Breaths, Drink In the Dark, Extended Exhalations
scarlet fever crashing through blue veins, ephemeral nights now crimson stained with ruby roses and cherry leather cuffs (the sting is a drug but it’s never enough) and she searches for answers in the shadows, stop motion stutter and start again, gently tracing the...
by breathwords | Feb 10, 2018 | Drink In the Dark, Extended Exhalations
She pricked her finger on the spindle of your thorns, fell prisoner to your irascible temper and lying eyes, the jewel in your own vainglorious crown, locked up behind the rage of daunting nights She felt you reach out for her to hold your mad hands as if to save her...
by breathwords | Feb 8, 2018 | Bittersweet Breaths, Extended Exhalations
my heart gets just as fixated as my mind these days, each pulse feeding into some chronic compulsion to run, to run, to run away darkness betrays, shadows threaten to exsanguinate (your name tastes bitter in my blood) and I’m clinging to anything that feels like...