Tuesday, April 28




Why fight it, when you can just curl up inside my soft, black heart?

Shapes of ladders, rope, moving under red lights, dancing constellations. Your demure hands, flushed cheeks, burn my skin clean off.

“Everywhere I go, I see things as modern art.”

The proof is in the pudding, captured second-hand smile, my turned head, dark hair, a blot on your morality.

“Please, I much prefer tart or strumpet.”

Your crazed confessions, libido logic. I’m only a nighttime librarian now-a-days, anyway.

Let it sit back and simmer. Then, burn it clean off.

Friday, April 24



Your little red lips,

Doe eyed recovery

Slinking

Away the city night

Wednesday, April 22



The South --

There is a sort of way it digs into you

Creeping ivy

Crawling all through your insides

I don’t know if it makes you broken

Or beautiful

Wednesday, April 15


Wind outside, whistling like a teakettle, discovering my obsessions.

Tuesday, April 14


Melusina After Tea



False memories make a mockery of the citadel

Dreams vibrating through bone like breath

When the air is still, absent

My husband –

I lay back in my bath

Selene split in half and lidded constellations

I dissolve and shall not remember

The ravens return on Saturdays

Flocking round my vanity

Stealing my long hair for their nests

High in trees bereft of name

Sunday, April 12

A Sappho Fragment



"... frequently

... for those

I treat well are the ones who most of all

... harm me

... crazy

...

you, I want

... to suffer

... in myself I am

aware of this"


[translated by Anne Carson; ellipses suggest missing text]

Wednesday, April 8

Quiz Time!


Jesus is:

a) a butcher
b) a baker
c) a candlestick maker
d) none of the above

Tuesday, April 7


Blues on the radio

Windows down

Getting run straight out of town

Monday, April 6


Sunday

souls of birds

(so young)

You make me want to sing

Sunday, April 5

Saturday, April 4


Childlike hands hovering over her bruised mouth.

“You’re not allowed back here.”

If this happened in the South, there’d be lightning bugs to illuminate our sins, bourbon and bluegrass to wash them away.

Pressed down into the backseat. Goddamn what I wouldn’t do for a slice of derby pie.

Friday, April 3


Spare a Thought for Phaedra On Her Wedding Day



Worm in the cake--

pokes out

like a bauble—

doff your pretty red skull in awe.


That pink groan

grinding in bed

with your thinking—


hooks a hard waltz

at the Bloodshot Ball.


by Elizabeth Winder

Nadja



"I am the soul in limbo"

Thursday, April 2



"There's a darkness I'll keep to myself."

Wednesday, April 1





Use me, so I can use you. It’s amazing what a little bit of sin can do.