free on planet oat milk

the story is not compelling. i zone out. grocery store in slippers. lagging behind you as you go on about independence day. i make a break behind the spray mist. aisle 15. stop to admire the gallery of cereal boxes. the creatures playful not shy. eighties music. sliding across floors waxed here on planet oat milk i am free  #katyamills

the deepest end

some lives go off 

the deepest end 

what if they did not sell the soul

it got absconded

 #katyamills

#1 thought

12 thoughts
run round my head
i select the very best one 
wrap it carefully in the comics 
we already read
when the moment comes
i will bring it out into the sun
for the trusted special ones 

to uplift them if 

i can

#katyamills

the undivided

there was light enough

to bring the work to completion

the sun soon corralled

behind the fence

wasted was the fullness

hanging heavy off 

the vine

troubled were the thoughts 

arising in the mind

i gave them my undivided

until the sky was red

then with a wink 

sent them off

to bed

#katyamills

question

if you cannot question your thoughts the same way you question authority you will live under the influence of them and what a way to live

  #katyamills

July 10

the warmth we once had between us began to burn. talking to you felt dangerous like dodging thrown knives or jumping a live wire. i don't know where it all went wrong or maybe i do. i cannot answer the phone when you call. not because i don't want to. it's just not safe anymore.

#katyamills

editorial

they bound the hay with cord

stacked in cubes on golden fields

like newspapers espousing causes 

forming larger cubes on solid earth

fated for consumption

#katyamills

schizophrenia 1

the personality 

is disordered they told him at the clinic

take these pills

he filled the prescription

in a fortnight by god he was freed from 

the voices yet suddenly 

terribly

alone

#katyamills

lost at sea

they was left 

tottering and damaged

lost at sea 

unseen by you

unknown to me

#katyamills

July 6

life is hard and i want it that way. 90 second bursts of punk music. with an urgency grind out these feelings like coffee beans turn to powder. to connect with you with the power of all we have been through

#katyamills

the galaxy within us

deep in the heart of the galaxy 

known as samsung

the metals of rare earth secrete into the bloodstream

accounting for the odd behavior transcribed 

in the last newspapers

on earth

#katyamills

notes from a remote location

life on the outpost is cheerful. stop. we (I) wake to the chatter of birds promoting the new unification. stop. commerce. entertainment. food. family. all within 1 jurisdiction. stop. prime delivery (via latitude longitude). stop. even here we find we (I) must drag the happy ass outside

#katyamills

the one that got away

if the mind had its way

like a hungry perch i would take the hook

giving its thoughts some radio play

fighting and jumping 

reeled in 

today needs no rebellion

fins tattered lip scarred i swim the depths

the one that got away

#katyamills

let them run

this house

speaks to me in code

of bubbled paint

settles into earth

taking on the stress 

so i won't have to

this is my home

cracks appear in the walls

let them run

i am thankful 

splash of milk 

in the tea

#katyamills

octo.pi

my emotion 

a lonely cephalopod

reaching and grasping 

tossed against a sky made 

of salt water

turning inside out

blasting any blank page 

with ink

#katyamills

1984 sketch

on holiday 

distant cheers from the parade 

they walk the paths radiating out from the park 

maples drop the generous leaves 

the youngest leaps to catch 

his sister follows far behind 

hands in pockets. listening to Psychedelic Furs 

disoriented by infatuation 

boy in shop class

#katyamills

migraine city

migraine city

you got into my head

two years earlier

you killed my friend

on the third day

quivering and wet with fever

like a flower facing the sun

i took charge and backed you into the lungs

come out and fight! Corona 

you got nothin 

on me

#katyamills

be

I did nothing until nothing became something

And then I did a lot of that

#katyamills

what you want won't help you much

what you want won't help you

any longer than the sweet brief season

in anticipation of getting it... 

getting it... having it upon getting it... 

until it no longer really interests you

because you already got it

#katyamills

sunny side up

from now on i cook my eggs sunny side up

the way i liked them when i was a kid

fought off corona for a fortnight and survived

grateful and making some changes

one order of life. bright with yolks unbroken

on a raft of impossible dream come true

 

   #katyamills

match girl

at night i set my head ablaze

became a dangerous passionate thing
the world lit


a burnt end by dawn i toed the line at work
confused by forced and dreary duality
self-inflicted. for work today is life
and life is work. thank god
for the illumination

 #katyamills

make out session with life

we stopped scrolling

and streaming we put away our phones 

braved the weather 

stepped into our colors 

and made out well 

at the dance

 #katyamills

22

the multi boundless medias 

the vitamins 

medications

nothing could console

her sordid collection 

of heartbroken

recollection

#katyamills

midnight

dressed down after the grand occasion i

made us a pot of midnight coffee we 

recollected the week from beginning to end 

the sun came back around 

and sent us to bed

#katyamills

taraxacum erythrospermum

Dandelion was the name of the candy store in the town where I grew up. a tall man with a moustache used to keep shop with an anxious high whistle. he watched us kids by mirrors with hawk eyes. when they make you for a thief long enough, you want to prove them right. one day the whole gang flooded the store, eight of us, then took off like we done something wrong. we dropped our skateboards over the curb and rolled out. breaking apart like the seeds of a taraxacum erythrospermum blown by the wind.   #katyamills

misgivings

compassion was an antidote to the misgivings she had about the world

#katyamills

an age old scam

surreptitiously

they wheel up to your car

one seated in the chair covered up by a blanket

the other pushing

while you dig into your purse for change

the invalid jumps up with a knife 

takes your breath and threatens 

your life

#katyamills

 

off the ave

they ditched the stolen bmw off this one road elbows the avenue the only witness the strawberry moon

#katyamills

take a chance on

summer nights

the heat was deep and sustained forcing 

rolling blackouts like a wave over the power grid

you filled the void by malt liquor and fits of patriarchal tyranny

we have no candles i lied

descending the back stairwell i would rather 

take a chance on 

the street

#katyamills

love 16

love cannot be careless 

or thoughtless without feeling

isolated. no. 

the ace of hearts plays off an entire deck

love has a litmus test

sanctified the moment

something given is received

both hearts must turn

red

#katyamills