with a face that blocked the entire sun
a voice made of water fallen
she lured you
up the slippery rocks at her feet
toward the clearing where
her lofty song thundered
down
i lashed myself to a beech tree there
calling yelling shouting
no longer able to see or hear
so this is how they
disappear
#katyamills
we follow her twisting frothy madness north by Highway 49. roar ascending like a stadium crowd at the south fork. her banks filled to the brim with snow transmuted by the sun and rushing off the peaks. what’s left of the wildest winter. our spirits rise to her
#katyamills
i learned by living
to lower the stakes we set so
high we panic
scared to make a single
mistake…
i learned by living
if you fall it may be bittersweet
for the ground she will
hold you
#katyamills
you
at eleven
was nothing like you
at fourteen
beyond the years
red with fire and no longer
green
please
let me be the one true friend
i refuse to amble along
pretending not
to notice
#katyamills
in the city of your dreams
scurry the serpentine back road black
top beauty. an ice cream snowball
crashes into your knee
natural painkiller
for all the licks
#katyamills
i am taken
flecked with silver and shimmering
hands clasped around your neck
wearing the forever coat of nails
you made me
i wanna kill the ones who made the internet
sometimes. for drawing me away from you
to careless icy screens
#katyamills
out of bars
out of cars
they got kicked
(they got scars)
out of class
been harassed
off of trains
in the head out of bed in the dark
the living daylights extinguished
off and on like an electrical short
some say
they made hard living look
lissome
#katyamills
galaxies
on our fingertips
we rest in a field
sciatica makes you sigh
a secret falls off the lips
up cycled into
sky
#katyamills
we locals
not casting out very far
wheel around town in a three door car
you know our names and we know yours
stop at the candy store and the bar
for some steady gossip to remedy
any overthink with a steady
drink
#katyamills
perfection. the dalliance ends now. stop the fuckery. i am with friends i walk with good intent. the weight of age and time the only pain i carry. no longer self-inflicted. my royal flush ends with a wild card. the feeling you get after you lost it all. to live on. #katyamills
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