by veronica | Nov 21, 2020 | Poems, Sincere
When I can’t sleep, fluttering awake from old and new worries, bad dreams, I try to count to a thousand by sevens. Just enough concentration to slow my heart to a gentle opening, closing, as on a flower in the sun, safe, and all alone. I try to count until the...
by veronica | Oct 15, 2020 | Poems, Silly, Sonnets
My cautious heart would rather take things slow; To build a friendship, banter, joke, and play. But look, the rest of me is gasping, so I compromise to scratch the itch this way I turn to you, O vapid dating app Be COVID conscious. Test and quarantine Then test...
by veronica | Jul 29, 2020 | Poems, Sincere
I need another metaphor Something besides a Dissection. No more knives and blood. I’m built more for punchlines than poetry Where it’s all artless, easy imagery too on-the-nose anyway, Isn’t it safer to hang back play the lovable idiot In case It turns out I’m...
by veronica | May 26, 2020 | Poems, Sincere
This building is so nice, clean and well kept, and yet your horrible, flat bodies fit just so under the door and you come in sniffing, tasting, seeking to touch all my stuff. I like to think I’m a tolerant person but I draw the line right here. Literally, with borax....
by veronica | Mar 31, 2020 | Poems, Sincere
Later, when this is all over I believe I would like to drag the back of my fingernail across the skin just above your elbow feel the press of your lips to the inside of my wrist catch the shell of your ear between my teeth and pull, just a little. Coat my palate with...
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