Tag: Poem

play possum

On By ©️K.T.2026In Animals, heartbreak, love, Ode, Poem, poetry, StoicLeave a comment

i’m fine

no, nothing’s wrong.

i just really love this song,
gives me the blues sometimes, is all.

a snake, a possum, a doe and fawn
on the roadside killed again, i saw.

i heard the breaking news story
and, i’m awfully raw,

just please ignore me.

this world can be so cruel and wicked
so,

of course, my tender heart’s afflicted.

you see my glistened eyes, lumped throat, and quivering lip

and, you think they’re for you??

well, sir or ma’am: that’s rich —

all, lies.

but also,

all true.

the sea of inez

On By ©️K.T.2026In love, Poem, poetry, relationships, waterLeave a comment

i feel the gravity

of

the love,
the loss,


so close || this close.


almost, almost, almost

buoyed, then anchored

an internal saltwater aquifer suffusing me

with a congestive heartbreak

it, swelling and stiffening my limbs
and, i cant walk to you or anyone,
i am beached in my own body

my eyes fill my mouth, my throat
and, i can’t talk to you or anyone,
i am muted by our illicit drug

so i

swallow,
swallow,
swallow

the sea inside of me

else, i

drown, drown, drown

in it,

i am not a mermaid
i am merely a human woman

yet my belly’s pregnant
with an Ocean

and, you know that

she’s y/ours

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sleep

On By ©️K.T.2026In love, Poem, poetryLeave a comment

sleep keeps you from me

you, unconscious and at rest
with my newfound enemy:
the Succubus
she eats your dreams of me, love
that’s why you can’t remember them

then, this great Lake
like a cold floor
between our warm
twin beds in winter
get out of bed, love,
come, sail to mine,

risk it

simpler, open your hazel eyes, please
thumbs, please dance in the blue light
say more, tell more, please
anything satisfies, love,
everything does

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someone

On By ©️K.T.2026In heartbreak, poetry, UncategorizedLeave a comment

i feel like someone
you last loved on a wednesday,
earlier this week

i feel like someone who was once your intense singular joy/ but now and once again,

just an invisible naturalist, poet, neologist and crone

i feel like someone you forgot to mention the Hilma Af Klint show to

i feel like someone losing “our” intimacy
exponentially, by the second, against a shot clock in an un-united center

i feel like someone whose forehead you won’t kiss; whose hollows you’ll never touch with hands, tongue or tip; like someone who’ll never truly climax again

i feel like someone who upset you with
Dream[ing] and that’s where it all ended; like someone who never listened to your diatribe about Waco, or heard of your plane rituals and four-part fruition

i feel like someone whose mystery you’ll let be; like someone whose content was consumed without gnosis; scarfed down like cold “leftovers”

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dream[t] poetry: Visitation

On By ©️K.T.2026In C.G. Jung, Carl Jung, dream analysis, dream poem, dream poetry, dreams, dreamt poem, dreamt poetry, Jung, Jungian, metaphysical, Poem, poetry, vivid dreamsLeave a comment

A man who wore a kelly green shirt
Surprised me in my dream
Crashed on my grandmother’s couch
swathed in blankets, soft and deep

I don’t ask him why he’s there,
It seems we both already know
This room’s exactly where she died,
This Oakdale house, sold long ago

Still, worried that as she ‘rived “home”
He’d given her a fright,
I go to wake her, see her, touch her . . .
What a beautiful, strange night.

He says, “No need to wake her now,
she’s a gem, it’s all okay,
she didn’t seem to mind me here,
I inferred that I might stay?”

I shush’d us, not to rouse her then,
Sound asleep in her old twin bed,
In disbelief, I hear her breathe
Has our connection stirred the Dead?

I feel wondrous, but then remembrance
forges space for Cardinal guilts
Smiling devilishly, making room for me,
he pats the couch and parts the quilts.

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