by Lunchbox Editor | Nov 24, 2023 | Poetry
Here is one thing that I’m not I am not the carpet that holds your feet (I am starting to see something Maybe we are one and the same Cut from the same cloth) Maybe I am just as fluent in lies and just as prickly as a sandpaper tongue I run away from...
by Lunchbox Editor | Apr 23, 2023 | Poetry
What marked the end of my youth’s blissful monotony: a chance encounter; spurred by rapacious temptations, I gave up my body for a wallet’s offer. The taste of euphoria outweighed any pang of guilt or regret, but life, as it always does, came to...
by Lunchbox Editor | Apr 23, 2023 | Poetry
I thought for sure that in the gaps between my fingers there were fairies who made their home. The years run on into eternity until they’re over and it’s like they were never even there, and I wonder why I didn’t sip from the fountain before the water ran dry....
by Lunchbox Editor | Apr 19, 2023 | Poetry
Slammed head first into rock bottom Lungs filled with water, Ocean pulled over my head, Laid down and slept for seven days Where it’s far too deep to see the stars Black seaweed hair waving in the tide With a push off the rocks, I am Launched upwards To...
by Lunchbox Editor | Apr 19, 2023 | Poetry
When the sun closes her eyes and pretends to sleep, I go back, back to before scraping my knee didn’t make me cry, before I wished I still knew how to pretend and every path led to a hidden cave with broken glass and rusted swing sets, before you stopped placing...
by Lunchbox Editor | Apr 19, 2023 | Poetry
Will you give me your groans, your breaths, your tears, will you bury them where I can find them? Will you bake the soil, tear out the grass, until the ground is parched and lifeless and still? Will you lend me your worst memories so I can turn them into tiny rolls of...
