I bet the next one will be younger young and naive enough to tolerate the everything about you so the way you drink seems fun,
By Kay Husnick8 days ago in Poets
I have been writing so many little bits and pieces of poems that I can't share -- vital messages written in code, hidden away in drafts,
By Kay Husnick9 days ago in Poets
I know the way things rot. Brown and white slime on sugar snap peas, black fuzz on applesauce uncovered and abandoned, the expanding plastic of a milk jug kept in the fridge weeks past the best by date,
By Kay Husnick29 days ago in Poets
Remind me how it feels to fall in love a fresh start, a first kiss, butterflies and our surroundings disappearing around us.
By Kay Husnickabout a month ago in Poets
Each day passes, and we keep going on this cycle around the sun, each moment extending our lifetimes another second. If you think about it, we are constantly eclipsing our
Even in this new life, the past clings to me. Your likeness follows in strangers' faces, passed on sidewalks increasingly casting shadows on otherwise
In the end, I am glad I still have you for all the bad memories, the list of reasons we did not work together, the ways we messed each other up,
Summer heat, sticky sweet sweat we sat in the park trying to force an appetite do you remember like I do? pre-concert diner sandwiches, watching spiders on the wall before the show
Fire follows me everywhere car fires, apartment fires, laundry room fires igniting nearby until I wonder if I'm throwing off sparks
He doesn't get me like you do, that innate understanding of being the same at our cores. Differences are fine, but some things are fundamental
By Kay Husnick2 months ago in Poets
I want to spend my time writing, but I get off work at 5 and have to make dinner I could order delivery, but that's $30+ and the potatoes on the counter are starting to sprout so I really should use them now
A woman at my local subway station was pushed onto the tracks She survived, but she lost her feet * A man pushed his girlfriend onto the tracks at my local subway station