Category: Poetry assignments

She wondered briefly if the smell of roses when there were none to be found might be evidence of brain trauma Brushed it off and convinced him salsa dancing was the way to fix this focused on their connection as they glided across the dance floor. They were lithe and surreal and all the things…

It was off season for the home team but we parked your car in the back of the empty visitor’s practice lot began rounding the bases anyway No hot dogs for sale this winter day but a look in your eye and time on our side, you pulled me in close. I said, “Honey, let’s…

“But if I sleep with you I will fall in love with you,” she said with eyes lowered and husky voice her red lips so close to his that one false move meant they’d be in over their heads. They breathed into each other and this decided everything. “I have already fallen in love with…

She poured gasoline all over their memories after a very frank conversation in which she asked who he wanted to share his heart with and he said “I could be happy either way.” She knew he was lying and she told him as much but he was driven to take the easy route and she…

Never did ice on her window Remind her so much of her lover But this morning She awoke in a dream of he With another How could her sister … It’s April outside should not be Drowning in hail showers But she is alone Has no one to hold She’ll stay under covers For just…

You sent Jennifer to make danishes after you smoked a blunt so when you wrapped your arms around me she wouldn’t know.   Everyone experiments in high school, right?   She put the icing on your treats before baking and scorched the danishes to the cookie sheet.   She had the munchies. Doesn’t everyone get…

Eyes like darts, your target was my heart I thought you meant to hold it, not puncture but I was never very sure of this game. I seem to throw best when blinded and you – always with a plan didn’t see this one coming You tell me to go for the bulls eye “I’ll get the rest,” you…