New Years

New Yearsand I’m staring at the clocklike it owes me somethinglike the past year didn’t stealhalf the air from my lungsand the restwas left in cigarette smokeand cheap wine New…

don’t act like that

don’t act like thatlike you don’t remember the nightsyour hands shaking my handslike we were trying to hold the world togetherand it was all just paper don’t act like thatlike…

Coffee

Steam rises like a promise / hot, thick, curling around your fingers / I watch your hands, they’re slow, deliberate / stirring in sugar, stirring in thought / my eyes…