Sonnet 1031

Mar 26, 2008 - 12:54 PM PST
so stoned his brown eyes but still they scold without words they seer
i feel his pupils pulse pump like fists forced beneath my gums
his father’s frowning upstairs mother’s moving downstairs no one hears
my apologies as he stones his eyes they blink back rage that strums

across my starving stomach full of his love his secrets i fought
so hard to save that summer on his itchy couch covered with black dog hair
beneath his red-checkered button-downs, buttons getting caught
on my dull dangling earrings my dull loving stare

once we sipped hot caramel apple cider when the sky was dim
beneath the Citizens Bank sign you held my purple fingers
stroked the purple bruises painted across my thin limb
still tingling to this day where your cracked thumb lingers

i wonder how our parents never noticed never knew
how i muffled my mouth beneath the pillowcase with you

Sonnet 1031


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Apr 09, 2008 - 21:33 PM

-mb on
so this is the second time i've not understood the whole star system. i always want to click each star until i get to 5, but this website doesn't work this way.

this poem deserves 5 stars and this is why: your rhymes are natural and don't stand out and say, "hey, look at me. i am really really forced and lori decided to use me at midnight on a wednesday in the middle of becca and sam's room after an hour of complaining that she can't rhyme to save her life." really really good lines. there's something about, "i wonder how our parents never noticed never knew
how i muffled my mouth beneath the pillowcase with you" that makes me hold my heart. so simple and so honest. beautiful