Poems by Melpomene

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  • I've heard whispers of Paris lately,
    the city of love and some place foreign to me...

  • His palm became my dictionary
    emended by pastel lines...

  • I spent
    the twenty fifth day...

  • Our home is decadent in
    peeling plaster...

  • I've been thinking lately,
    about how we've forgotten all the...

  • As a child I was fascinated by your back,
    I saw your freckles as docks and my crayons...

  • We'd meet with shells and a camera,
    toes tap dancing over bluebottle jellyfish and...

  • The letter I probably should have written...
    Our love was a string of haiku; and I...

  • Before now,
    there was a vacancy in my...

  • October was;
    the death of fireflies...

  • My mind is a suitcase and it's kept
    the gunpowder close to my lipstick and...

  • It was something
    about that December day...