Kiss
Lips, tongue, teeth. This is familiar, she illumined, kissing another woman for the first time. Had it not been for the involuntary quiver in her legs causing her to nervously…
Seek
The tension was one-sided. He was cool like Christmas Eve; however, predicting her battle cry, he made hot cocoa and brought it in her favorite mug. She wasn’t mad at…
Move
I Will Always Love You played on the radio, tauntingly, as the soon-to-be ex-wife packed the last of her belongings. Her courtship had lasted longer than the marriage, and the…
Graduation
A young woman, while walking to her college graduation, was violently attacked and brutally raped. After a year of surgeries and therapy sessions, she returned to the college to receive…
Fools
“I’m pregnant, I want an abortion, and you will pay for it.” Frightening words for a seventeen-year-old boy to hear. Even more frightening for a fifteen-year-old girl to say, but…
Crushed
Barefoot she dangerously leapt onto the back of the metal bench and clumsily staggered to find her balance, then spun gracefully on her tippy toes as though gravity were her…
Fire
Recitation of Fire by Renee She could have waited until he was in his bedroom but she didn’t want him to die in the fire or even to know she…
Touch
the memory hurts more than her touch ever could innocent victim misunderstood pain and confusion emerge now and then through fear and desire she’ll touch me again
I feel like writing
I feel like writing a haiku but I don’t know how. This is my first. March 7, 2013
Came
Recitation of Came by Renee I came into his atmosphere Indignant, Angry Like Katrina He smiled Motherfucker My hand came across his cheek Swiftly, Unforgiving Like retribution His lips came…