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kalena commented on the post, measured 6 months, 1 week ago
jammed between a staff and strung out
unpressed piano pedals await
to make an audible sense
of how ive been measured -
kalena commented on the post, miracle 8 months, 2 weeks ago
stumbling over my own feet in the morning
exhaling someone elses stale liquor breath
i realize the emptiness emanates
from my own
dissatisfaction with the impossibility of Fate.
i clutch at strangers hands like miracles -
kalena commented on the post, railroad 10 months, 3 weeks ago
I hear the trains nightly
sobbing something familiar
i had gotten used to them
after ten years
but now the railroad’s all i dream about -
kalena commented on the post, saturday 10 months, 3 weeks ago
it’s 6 am
it’s saturday
i haven’t slept because i’ve been too empty to sleep
i haven’t slept because you showed up
willing
perhaps
to help me fill myself -
kalena commented on the post, earring 1 year, 1 month ago
discarded, i saw one pearl
sitting beside the sidewalk
so many had walked down
never caring about the beauty
hidden beneath forgotten dirt -
kalena commented on the post, flirt 1 year, 3 months ago
why flit your eyes
at idealistic unrealities
why flirt with impossible,
improbable, visions
they’re not wonderful.
they’re lies. -
kalena commented on the post, festival 1 year, 3 months ago
I’ll be waiting for you
at a silver booth
I’ll wear a mask of mahogany
painted with shapes and forms
of wingless birds
and bones.LOLOLOLLL i’m dumb
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kalena wrote about the word hinge 1 year, 3 months ago
hanging by the last
of unoiled remains,
of rusted inquiries
and dust-ridden brains,
thoughts lay petrified. -
kalena wrote about the word fences 1 year, 3 months ago
painted a shade of dulling off-white the slats that lead up into stencil-cut pricks pose an insignificant threat to the possibilities of glimpses and touches and conversations not held back by rusting chains. my collar could just as easily be made of wind. the stake that grounds me an annoying plastic dyed blue with scorn [...]
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kalena wrote about the word cactus 1 year, 4 months ago
like pricks in my iris
but i shrug
and back they roll.
they’ll force themselves out
when i’m left alone. -
kalena wrote about the word dessert 1 year, 4 months ago
i save you for later
after i’ve had my share
of boring america
each passing day
i’ll save you for later
we can find each other
after we have thoroughly digested
our share of bland terrain -
kalena wrote about the word fireplace 1 year, 4 months ago
The last of the firewood
lay stacked like lincoln logs,
and amid crumpled quotes
and pipe-cleaner selves,
an unidentifiable heap of rubbish-
mostly ash, now-
slowly walked away,
haphazardly,
in the faint wind.
The woods behind the interstate
make a homely fireplace. -
kalena wrote about the word hurry 1 year, 5 months ago
Watch the ants.
They all have their own queen,
and although not as strong
as was once talked about,
they hurry on as if no larger
beings exist to stop them.
They scurry, I scurry.
I am one of the few that worries.
But all of us ants should drop our leaves and breathe. -
kalena wrote about the word dusk 1 year, 5 months ago
A loft of pigeons attacks a handful of bones the way the dusk falls, no less softly, around a soundless silhouette. Such silence severs what links remained, all but that between a foot and greying moss. The remnants of sunshine, calling lightly at closed lids, go largely ignored. She knows that opening those lead-weighted traps [...]
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kalena wrote about the word thunder 1 year, 5 months ago
it’s silent here,
as loud as the claps
that shake the trees
in the summer rain.
except the puddles have dried.
the air waits,
nervously tensing its ankles
as it crouches,
seeking an end
to the deafening absence of sound. -
kalena posted an update: 1 year, 5 months ago
i wish this website wasn’t so weirdly designed and i actually knew how to find cool people and add them and stuff. sigh.
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kalena wrote about the word gown 1 year, 5 months ago
The night swirled
about her distant gaze
like a gown
around a scrawny set of ankles.
Where she looked,
a near-stranger exhaled
the last of something warm.
She pretended
the dying rings
were a beckon. -
kalena wrote about the word deserve 1 year, 5 months ago
I don’t think people really deserve things. It’s impossible to know what’s good and where rewards are owed. I’m sorry, I’m incapable of poetry today.
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No, you’re right. No one deserves anything. This world wasn’t built to be entitled to one certain individual.
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kalena wrote about the word obey 1 year, 5 months ago
i miss the gentle guidance
of your breath on my neck’s nape.
never authoritative,
but still i would obey.
“i like your hips,”
you once cooed,
and reluctantly i caved. -
kalena wrote about the word husband 1 year, 6 months ago
the husband of my heart
rests not in a man
but in a gentle mist
from a quiet mountain
calling sweetly
“here, you will not be afraid.” - Load More
