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Touch

I lost

two months with no human touch
face-to-face was only if you count
speaking through a screen…

A. Violet May 18, 2023 Free Form, Postaday

Compulsion

the half-pout
of your lips
draws me in
like a vortex…

Mx. Lavender April 5, 2023 Free Form, Postaday

Sensory Deprivation

I can live
without touch…

A. Violet April 3, 2023 Haiku, Postaday

Touch

why do we say
we’ll be in touch…

A. Violet March 19, 2023 Free Form, Postaday

Winter to Spring

your hand grazes
my waist…

Mx. Lavender February 13, 2023 Free Form, Postaday

A Form of Touch

A brief breeze passes,
moving the tips of your hair…

J.R. Kovacs June 21, 2021 Haiku, Postaday

Crazy is a Journey I Haven’t Finished

Taking leave of one’s senses,
they call it, when someone
is supposedly going crazy.
What they mean, of course…

A. Violet December 31, 2020 Free Form, Postaday

Worth It?

would you give up
the stretch of a cinnamon roll,
the smoothness of pudding,
the crunch of a cucumber…

A. Violet December 12, 2020 Free Form, Postaday

Body Image

I touch my stomach, tracing
the ghost of where
your hand gently squeezed,
marveling that you like…

A. Violet December 9, 2020 Free Form, Postaday

Blue

The smooth cobalt
of a sky you can’t touch,
not so much that you can’t reach
but that if you did, it might swallow
you whole

A. Violet November 5, 2020 Postaday, Tanka

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