Poems from BeLoveToday
The muffled sounds of the baseball game on TV drift upstairs
Punctured with my father’s excited cheering if we score, and quiet snores
When...
Chemical words bubble out of your mouth
Jumping, leaping, floating free.
I see electronegativity, I hear all eight syllables.
I watch your...
Love runs in front of you down the dirt road
In a light cotton dress exposing bare calves.
She yelps in glee, evading captivity.
Let our separate skins fizz,
Just once. On my pinky toe or my
Elbow. Or the inside of my knee.
Any touch you give sends me those sparks,...
I stare at my cold toes peeping out from under the blanket
And wish they were covered.
I feel like a cold toe, my whole self exposed by...