stepped off a high place
swan dive with grace wind
in the face
farewell to time and to space
you was
on my straps tuggin
the beach sunk in sand
heart of summer
they was staring at us talking
we was dreaming
using grammar all wrong
and uncaring #katyamills
let them be
they cannot see you
you cannot change them
go out there and do what you do
be loved by perfect
strangers
#katyamills
undocumented they needed to see the dentist everything was blurry needed glasses they would have made a fine professor had they been permitted needed a doctor 4 the bipartisan degenerative culture disease afflicting this brilliant patch of earth under the sun #katyamills
they found a girl in the marshes
some murder in may my
sense of time was taken i guess yours was too
supposed to pick me up now where the hell are you?
he walked them forensics and all
back to the scene in the fall
the soul had softly regenerated
the echo the sound
of industry
the brick houses the train
whistles the desire
kept you up all night. chicago
was full of lost souls
searching 4 they
life
#katyamills
with or without you you live in my heart
when they see me its both of us coming
#katyamills
you can look upon her
the cold desert nights
feel her inside you
as the sun she can
feel you inside her
stare at you and go
blind #katyamills
she took the white soldiers and broke them
the flanks of chalk made colorful
clouds you could see your
feelings on the blackboard still
nobody could say what really happened
2 her not even her 4 the truth was against the rules in a world of cream
pies and blue skies #katyamills
some are clear bright
and calm others messy dangerous
and deafening some
endure others gone in an instant
collective memory keepin them alive
like poems worlds begin
and end #katyamills
she was filling out unemployment forms
gulping polish vodka
an easy forgotten sense of safety rocked toe to heel in the darkest corner of the bar
he lit a newport @ the edge of her lip and
with hopes of having her
played therapist
#katyamills
run on 4 hours sleep
ice cream for breakfast wash
it down with house coffee they
dont paint a great face they wont
talk too much smack they aint
buttoned up in the finest fabrics
they just work hard a long day
ahead and they mean it
sincerely #katyamills
its serious
she been seeing things again
someone got roped into a fiasco
someone needs saving
she tells him but he dont believe
hes looking for an angle
a tenderness to attack he
wants to start a fight
playfully
#katyamills
im a yarn ball rolling
under the door and out into the sun
im less complicated
they only need me when its cold im
less arrogant than u see i dont
know nothin i got holes in me cuz
im unlearnin stuff
#katyamills
over the blast of the nor'easter
he yelled give er a little gas!
the panting dog of a truck
fired up she clawed the wheel
he pushed with all of his might
defrosting in the booth
of a diner a half hour later
they laughed and laughed
and laughed #katyamills
the sunflowers drink like you drink
she said filling up the vase
again. she rearranged them so they heads
looked all around the room
missing nothing
#katyamills
after all kinds of sophistry
they finally read something honest
in a world detoured from books
they had just about given up
themselves
they thought wrong they
caved they pushed the tablet into the portal
surgically wired into they chest
where the heart once
resided #katyamills
life's not been easy
may get harder
hold on and take your time
stay in your truth
don't let them dictate
be the diamond
sparkle
#katyamills
the old world on tv looks like fiction
but it was so damn real
the angels the devils alternately saving
terrorizing souls. the greatest angels are devils
disguised. beneath their wings
a million lives of quiet desperation nothings
changed #katyamills
fire in the ocean
color in the sky
independence 4
some. the rest
forced to the ground
eat dirt. i. what i
have i like to give
so they. they
can taste some
too #katyamills
sometimes it's
4th of july in my mind i
got more than i bargained for. god gave life
wash it down with milk
amped up from a colorless
granular primordial
base #katyamills
you wanted to be someone
you could be anything you
could be someone you could
be yourself #katyamills
oh the dawn when all thats wrong
in the world made right
the light come even into the sky
i could stay with you here for ever
and ever. been so long since it rained i
think im gonna cry #katyamills
they found the old locomotive stuck
ina dreary railyard
ten miles from country meadows
arranged some flowers in
her smoke stack rang her passenger
bell a couple times on a prayer
she might live again
#katyamills