Channels

You’re channel surfing, searching, seizing the remote I’m lost in the sleeves of your overcoat  The planet is unwinding, we are teleporting home Television bender, lay your body in a moat I’m floating, filling, flowering the empty pot You’re spoiling the party on your friend’s dad’s yacht  The fruit has overripened, we are feasting on […]

Exploding Orange

A handmade fire. My gaze fixed on it. The deep amber of its glowing center. Tangle of root. Rot. Of bark and branch. The gradual unraveling of burn. Birch. Dogwood decomposing. The old oak within me. Listen as it sizzles. Spits. Red maple exploding orange. Hold a picture of the color in my head. Now […]

Dream Report #7

Follow the link to read Dream Report #7 published by Nowhere Girl Collective. https://www.dakotawarren.com/poetry-dear-diary/dreamreport7

July

Doorway eyes. A bell tower. Red green fusion. From twigs to trees. Regard a gaggle of children one table over. Bottle cap off. Bones discarded. Under a ceiling fan buzzing. A bond. A build up. That same trash can. Height unlocking. Heat flirting with ice. All the different angels of a face. A moth. Purchase […]

Peace

Suppose it were as you suppose.  You, a wind passing freely through my life.  Some imperceptible force impossible to possess.  And if not the wind, then a gentle pour of rain puddling up at my door in search of hidden cracks. Surely a spell fell over me.  Somewhere between the bench and the beach.  I […]

Train

I got on the wrong train. I got off after I realized. I waited with an anxious foot. I forgot to breathe. The right train came eventually. I got on. I thought about my grandma. I felt guilty. I thought about the man sitting across from me, the way he rubbed his pointer finger against […]