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paper doll

Image via Magpie Tales you caught the stars left handed tossed 'em back eyes twinkling before the sun realized they were gone blowing out your fingers like candles & cracking jokes (so i wouldn't worry) you couldn't hide what you were 2015-Rene

tourist

Photo by Elene Usdin via Magpie Tales girl she said it's time you oughta go dig a hole & unscrew the anchor check yourself out & pay what you owe give  up the landline all of your keys whittle life  down from one hundred to free 2015-Rene

yards

Image via Magpie Tales  put it on out there labels facing north truth in the wind catch the neighbors spinning up yarns then you strut & reel it on it 2015-Rene

bon voyage

photograph by Robert Doisneau via Magpie Tales welcome traveler your desire is not lost in translation here's a postcard in the mother tongue a scrapbook memory from a brighter sun 2014-Rene

étouffer

photo via magpie tales i am okay i guess i do hope & suppose don't you think so? if only your voice could lift me i would run hard into silence 2014-Rene

fizz

Escher via Magpie Tales your smile invincible, elastic a soap bubble gibraltar rising under an origami ribcage or maybe it's just gastric! 2014-Rene

charmed

moths ( via Magpie Tales ) if i could i would steal the sun  & the moon swallow them whole and  call off the morning if i could i would tell you  everything  i've done  or failed to do  letting the night fall down unpinned & unafraid if i could i would be the star of your  40 watt galaxy & never the moth burned in the pull  of your gravity 2014-Rene