BEIGE

purgatory is this meeting right now
you chase the devil
out of those details
back into every decision

then flip it over ten minutes later
waft the steam
until it turns beige

Speculum

He looked in the mirror
and saw someone else.

Unsaid

"Love" wasn't left unsaid
"Thank you" that was left unsaid
"I know you" maybe left unsaid
I don't know what was said

YOU

How strange
To dream of you
Even when
I am wide awake

HOPE

“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all

-Emily Dickinson

LOVERS

Each night
the moon kisses secretly
the lover who counts the stars

-Rumi

ICARUS

Together we will fly
And if we end up too close to the sun
we will catch each other
And fall as one body
We are no tale of Icarus.

​​​​​​​Cœur

You may break my heart
a million times more;
But only,
It will learn to love you
a billion times stronger

ERATO

An echo, asking a shadow to dance

LARMES

She dried her tears and they did smile
To see her cheeks' returning glow
How little dreaming all the while
That full heart throbbed to overflow

-Emily Jane Brontë