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Breath

Oxygen

when you’re drowning
when you’re gasping for breath
and there is no air…

A. Violet May 19, 2023 Free Form, Postaday

Waiting

Mist
is a state of being…

Mx. Lavender April 25, 2023 Postaday, Tanka

Cold

cold reaches inside
my unzipped jacket
like fingers on my collarbone…

Mx. Lavender March 1, 2023 Free Form, Postaday

Life Tip #3

write a poem on your cigarette…

A. Violet December 22, 2021 Haiku, Postaday

Deep River

walk into the water,
it swallows you,
breath in the moment
is trapped in your lungs….

A. Violet July 12, 2021 Free Form, Postaday

Waiting

we don’t celebrate
the blank page,
we abhor
its crisp
clean
emptiness….

Mx. Lavender February 21, 2021 Free Form, Postaday

Please and Thanks

I’d know you
with my eyes closed
and my hands tied
behind my back. …

Mx. Lavender December 27, 2020 Free Form

when the air was sweet-and-sour

you breathed in the space
beside my ear
i smelled the undertone
of your hair ….

A. Violet August 26, 2020 Free Form, Postaday

Asterisk

Does the asterisk
make you nervous?
It makes me nervous.
It means going off to find
something somewhere else…

A. Violet May 22, 2020 Free Form, Postaday

Another Wednesday

You’re not right —
you push all day,
chug that caffeine
like it’s oxygen…

A. Violet February 13, 2020 Free Form, Postaday

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