poetry – Thistle Thoughts

I Often Have Nostalgia For Things That Never Happened

tonight i learned about the dead boy
who filmed my old stomping ground

“Trying to Catch Dust in a Windstorm”

Some of my microfiction included in the “#horrorprompt Anthology Volume 1”

“There’s a way back to blue
& to you, but we couldn’t
remind you in time”

some cords desire to be bound
tighter, some anchors prevent
us from floating too far away

I’m being as patient as possible

There was medicine just lying around,

Anne Sexton/Sylvia Plath Challenge

In the pink plastic pail
at the end
of the driveway,
stones and acorns
soak, sky reflections
swirl.

what is broken
are systems