half a mile from downtown
drinking vodka under a hanging bulb
throwing ideas around
it was easy to like you
all the while knowing you won’t show
tomorrow for the back breaking
work
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equi.nox
they tamed the squares of grass
weed machines whipping tentacles
the equinox spoke in shades of green
kid became a turtle. camouflaged
feigning a study of the phone
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earthen world
I confess
I am undeserving
of your caress
these words he spoke
a mouse in his throat
for you know not yet
of my betrayalÂ
my fingers closed
into a fist. I struck out
until my knuckles
bled
the earthen world
undeterred
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trax
a 2016 reblog for ya!
trax
the weekend came
with rain and the grasses fantasy
green
with rain and the grasses fantasy
green
reality was dishes
was rent and quarter
moons and abrasive
the train tracks are so
godddam polished
when the weather clears
i think i will go eat lunch
on them
or paint my nails
or lay my spine out
or straddle them in denim
and ride them
choo choo
like a freak
or follow the vibration
to the end of
the world
like church bells
like prayer
like god was in doing
the thing which
when done
made you
smile
waiting out a storm
i published it at an unusual time
by candlelight
the coffee strong
the songs we joyfully butchered
the night long
our differences cast
aside
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book review
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
I did not love it. I liked it. I was able to conquer my attention span and read 1,000 pages. That was more enlightening than the book itself. Tolstoy of course – a master. You see him in Levin. You find the most honorable writing in tribute to the Russian peasants. They are like the true heroic figures of this novel. All the society crap Anna was destroyed by. So sad. So predictable and timeless. All countries’ societies are the same. How people treat people. Drive some to suicide. Vronsky was very typical in many ways. A typical man with ambition and a sex drive. I hate how he left his horse to die and didn’t seem to care. In a way he treated Anna the same. But not on purpose. Unconsciously. The peasants with their scythes clearing the million acres of fields. Laughing. Not caring. Working. Living. Beautiful the way Tolstoy describes them. Levin aspires to live with them before he gets married. Maybe even after. Anna’s son and the scene where she returns to see him one final time – this scene is truly magnificent. Tolstoy’s gem. The best thing I got from this book was humbled (as a writer). Also delighted. By the tour of Moscow, St Petersburg, and the descriptions of hunting and farming in the Russian countryside.
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Erotica #k
from the archive of K IS SILENT 🙂
They went
down
On
one
another
The indents
Of his elbows
Full court
pressing
The indents
Of her knees
He made her
A figure
of speech
She was
so relaxed
Afterward
So relaxed
Was he
The small of
Her back
The breadth
Of him
Shoulder
Blade
To Blade
A Clear
& Sweet
Hearts
Memory
He was
So relaxed
Was she
Forward
She sang
The verses
He played
The chords
Toward
He sang
towards her
Words played
Nice
Soon
They would
Be
Beside
Them
selves
Katya Mills, © 2013
BOOK REVIEWS
HERE ARE THE INITIAL REVIEWS ON GOODREADS.COM FOR MY POETRY BOOK: ‘UP FROM THE DOWNTRODDEN’ – Katya Mills
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· 30 ratings · 13 reviews
#There’s nothing like the feeling of connection with poetry… “you tore into us drunk again one of your moods unpredictable charged”Â
#overall, this poetry style wasn’t for me. however, the author has a great flow, and even when a poem didn’t do it for me, i could still feel the rhythm of the words. i did really enjoy some of the poems!
#It takes me what can seem like a long while to read a book of poetry that itself is not that many pages with poems that aren’t themselves pages long. I do this because, to me, poetry is a short form of expression that, even in its longer iterations, conveys deep emotions and intimate thoughts in terms sometimes abstract, but always involving a tone/mood. Katya Mills’ collection is ripe with such short poems that convey certain moods.
#i LOVED reading this book. i win it in a giveaway, and stayed up at four in the morning reading through it. im normally not a poetry person, but something about this book really made me connect with it. ill definitely be reading through again, making it like my daily one page at a time book.
#I’m not a big poetry reader but I’m very happy I got to read this gem. It was so refreshing and I really enjoyed reading it
april 20
the roosters the dogs the cats
toll the time
they fight for their lives
we get into our wheels we
run to our hearts
content
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YAQUI
i am in sacred company
the Apache and you
feather of ink down the forearm. Yaqui tribe
the sky commanded the ground
be still
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