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The Blue Fairy
My soul is in you, my stories upon your lips, The ease of your creation silences you,Now you may never speak as I would speak,You may never say “this is mine to give” But it is.. Read more
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Your Lullaby
You’re not sleeping in this burning world,And you’re afraid of dreaming out loud,Afraid the flames will get a taste for you,Be left a prisoner of your forlorn desire.I’m not going to lie but I can be present,Walk with you through judgement of fire,With the seeds of affection we’ve sown. Maybe it’s the weather, or a Read more
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Emily’s List
You don’t know how to have me,This matchstick girl’s dream of fire,The circus dancing around you, The fame that gets you higher and higher. I don’t want you to fall beloved, Tell the preacher I’m keeping herUp there in the rarified air –This wish in my hands forever. Let go of my balloon Our lies Read more
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The Lady in White
There! Her pale visage plays with me, Haunting my city’s streets, Spectre of pretty perfection, Brilliant in her bedsheets. Intimate her imitation, Folly this shadow’s game, I flush, I read, I feel her chill, To touch her spooky fame – Now I wish to mourn the living, Bound by the breathless call, The Lady in Read more
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The Wishing Tree
Sitting under a staircase of stars,Next to her brother’s love and her sister’s gifts,By an ancient and undisturbed tree,Listening to the sounds of its strange fruit,The sounds of wishes bright and pale,Drifting through the wandering branches,Like explorers in search of new lands,She hears a sailor stranded at sea,Wishing a mermaid would end his suffering,And the Read more
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A Girl Called September
You took me out to a sweet Midsummer’s dream, To tell me all about the sleepy Shadow’s play, And the two hands it takes to move the darkness The Lady who gives, and the one that takes away. Feeding those pretty vampires at the petting zoo, I gave them a little of me, you gave Read more