all of this is hard

you gotta fight for what
you believe in


anything you don't fight 4
probably ain't worth much

anyway   #katyamills

heartbreakers

walked a rocky path into a river they

got swept away

left a part of her behind in

the broken clay 

artifact of those games

we all play heartbreakers 

of the world unite and 

take over  

#katyamills

sounds like bees

like indy cars life 

engine buzzing 

flies by

checkered flags 

means your through

hopefully they made it

2 the finish line

too

the girlfriend 

the wreaths

cow milk

4 you

 

#katyamills

years of not

summer approaches 

the road is hot

to love once again 

after years of 

not

#katyamills

so damn sugar

i fall super behind i

take a hundred breaths 

gotta be kind 

to my poor sodden 

mind. battle the ants 4 

sugar i won't say sorry 

for being damn

sweet 

#katyamills

delorean

taken by an idea you

went for mass production

fame and fortune @ a cost unforeseen 

your kids all grown up now

redline the concept car

spread the gull wings 

fly it offa cliff to break with 

the waves

#katyamills

night and day

between night

and day there are 

infinite expressions 

of light. being nonbinary 

is equally intricate

and irrefutable 

 #katyamills

cross

when the sun hit the sky

the disturbance had washed out

they body and mind 

a formerly great splash

of paint. how peaceful life

again had become

when the sun genuflect

met and crossed the sea 

#katyamills

alameda again

man with a pipe of tobacco paces 

in his own head. isis flops 

on her back undeterred by cars and sarah's 

slovak commands plays

dead    #katyamills

alt version...

old man nurses a pipe of tobacco

paces the sidewalk slow

black vest and chain he strikes a dead stop

composing the thoughts in his head

where anyone would love

to compose. isis flops on her back

undeterred by cars and sarahs slovak commands

tongue out plays dead

too

seattle revisited

walking wide awake eyes 

down the blue eyeliner jumping like a heartbeat

on the blonde valet 

the architecture lopes to the water's edge 

in this uphill town

time for café au lait

feels like rain again

the ships they head

to sea

#katyamills

closer to nirvana

no makeup no facelift

the lead singer at the beggars 

banquet crashes into us all

disrupting our moral patagonia

sourced fiber how dare you?

i am closer to nirvana 

may as well be 1989 here 

in olympia nothings changed 

#katyamills

avo.cado

woven like maseratis 

in and out the lanes 

giving no fucks we 

under the avocado tree 

made love slept 

well 

#katyamills

corazón

the crows fight the wind for me 

and my burrito in this corazón of cloudy misty sea

far from our valley of perpetual 

sunshine where down moods 

cannot anchor

you asked for a kiss

and i gave

#katyamills

bobaheads

tapioca gridlock ina paper straw 

deep in thought dog playing dead ina street

sometimes u gotta suck real hard 

to get free

#katyamills

25

like birds without songs

red arrows 

stitched in the

wing

god 

we are small

we are essential

now

#katyamills

the sea

above the sea

a lonely barn flanked with stables

where horses once hung

their heads

 

the sea cannot be 

contended 

you become a boy

place a flower in my hair 

she thunders she 

outlives us 

all    

#katyamills

Daly City

only the perseverating winds

keep these homes from tumbling 

into the sea. deaf and dumb we stare 

and listen. only your arms

keep me  #katyamills

14

whenever they thought they was

struggling they felt back

to when they really

was

no money

no home no real

friends around

anymore

isolated by they world

the chaos in they

head

the hard water

softens when super

aware

#katyamills

wheat and chaff

in opposition to the world

while we sleep 

like a philosopher devoted

2 make sense of it all

 our dreams they

separate the wheat 

from the chaff 

#katyamills

cross current

news of the conception 

of your second child fights for celebration 

against the prevailing tide

the very day she died

#katyamills

mount shasta

like another world
we had been waiting for
you appeared

elusive

snow-capped

hiding behind clouds

dreamy

closer and closer we

became

#katyamills

be with

in a city
for the first time you
don't have to do nothing
but be with
walk around and explore
leave your damn phone
at home

#katyamills

olympia reverb

we got off the sleater-kinney avenue
exit my friend joking would you
sleep with a riot girl?

if i could sleep with a concept i probably would
does that sound desperate?

outside a veteran on an insult parade
badgered a dope fiend using a wheelchair
ready to kill rock stars

 #katyamills

moms

saturday night 

almost moms day

six pack of tacos to go 

on northgate we froze

cars collided

 BLAM! 

one stepped out behind 

an air bag

arm sliced 

i gave my shirt

4 a tourniquet

everyone thinking 

about moms how

we wouldn't even be here 

without them

#katyamills

OFA

i wanna make
more memories
can only pick up
the ones we had

dearest Ofa

after breaking down
i get up. you would want me
to 

be strong
and
do the good
work

#katyamills

tēlecine

all patches leather sound and
symbol - Redding, California -
an entire crew of Mongols blasted past us
in pairs lone wolf edging the breakdown
lane.  i got so excited i
don't know why?

 i guess them tēlecine ghosts
found a way to cross
over  #katyamills

hotel 50

we stand together

midway through life

a social distance from the muddy

banks with tablets coloring

an endless supply of rain

the hotel carpet prints a map 

we refuse to follow 

on fumes of espresso

we live on endless supply 

of dreams

#katyamills

what the whip poor will

1:11am. macrobid wages war 

in the gut. i wake startled

eyes bloodshot hair reaching up and back

a victoria crowned pigeon i 

audit yesterday. submit my findings 2

the memory bank and retire at dawn 

floating prayers off the balcony

to my dear colleague in 

the ICU

#katyamills

come as you went

oh sky of monster clouds and glass

hillsides vert from rain. you produced the sound

we follow south to where it ends and

underneath the bridge oh sullen

aberdeen    #katyamills

@ the market

proprietors of fish

walk the stones in aprons

hagglin with grease pens rumblin

over flavor skin and locale. onlookers teeth

pull apart the connective tissue

unable to satisfy the hunger

they walk away

the amity of the vendors

not 100% lost to them

#katyamills

portland or

creatures of sacramento 

in this moody leaden town 

pining for words we were

sun salutations in line 

across from new orleans donuts 

swept off to pee before we could enter 

the incomparable city 

of books

#katyamills