tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45509438536918705242024-03-14T02:33:16.806-07:00redandcaramelredandcaramelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12099466265368917383noreply@blogger.comBlogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4550943853691870524.post-43276461278722792712014-12-15T16:32:00.001-08:002014-12-15T16:32:00.348-08:00a golden moon<div>a golden moon peers,</div><div>skin becomes translucent,</div><div>inner workings now revealed.</div><div>and we realise </div><div>that for you, </div><div>just like for all of us:</div><div>everything has fallen apart </div><div><br></div>redandcaramelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12099466265368917383noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4550943853691870524.post-88335685210146233102014-10-06T02:50:00.001-07:002014-10-06T02:50:55.050-07:00off sick<div>light fights its way through</div><div>unbleached white linen </div><div><br></div><div>wallowing in silver grey </div><div>dull golden sheets drape </div><div><br></div><div>bitter spaces in between ribs </div><div>just realised they exist at all</div><div><br></div><div>sleep: a cruel distant star</div><div>in an invisible heaven. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>redandcaramelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12099466265368917383noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4550943853691870524.post-16088454946365043692014-10-05T03:01:00.001-07:002014-10-05T03:01:09.846-07:00Goldfish<div><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">underwater</span></div><div>whole sentences </div><div>encapsulated </div><div>in air </div><div>no one hears</div><div><br></div><div>just a fish </div><div>saying nothing </div><div><br></div>redandcaramelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12099466265368917383noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4550943853691870524.post-82877904346727835412014-09-28T15:02:00.001-07:002014-09-28T15:02:07.452-07:00the machine<div>this machine </div><div>doesn't do</div><div>what I think it does</div><div><br></div><div>I guessed incorrectly</div><div>at the design</div><div>and can't make sense of the flaws</div><div>although I know that they are there </div><div><br></div><div>the manufacturer was not to blame</div><div>nor the original owner</div><div>it was hired out: the machine,</div><div>to inexpert hands</div><div><br></div><div>they wished nothing more</div><div>than to examine the workings</div><div>and delicate parts </div><div>for reasons I still can't tell. </div><div><br></div><div>it strikes us now</div><div>that though irretrievably flawed </div><div>the idea of the machine itself </div><div>is the most beautiful thing </div><div><br></div><div>that ever was. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>redandcaramelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12099466265368917383noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4550943853691870524.post-60561685534313721752014-09-05T13:12:00.001-07:002014-09-05T13:12:19.192-07:00buoy<div>there is a buoy:</div><div>even in tides,</div><div>evocative of apocalypse.</div><div>it never sinks</div><div><br></div><div>life is too tempting,</div><div>too basically interesting (sometimes)</div><div>which makes it </div><div>utterly impossible</div><div><br></div><div>for me to submit </div>redandcaramelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12099466265368917383noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4550943853691870524.post-22610037612776247272014-09-04T16:39:00.001-07:002014-09-04T16:47:55.658-07:00Eggshells<div>dignity implodes</div><div>bare humiliation blooms</div><div>and then I remember in my daze:</div><div>"It's not about you"</div><div><br></div><div>forgiveness swoops in</div><div>gallantly sweeping horrors aside</div><div>leaving only </div><div>the well marked broken eggshells</div><div>you carelessly trod on.</div><div>those and spilt milk</div><div><br></div><div>I still cry over it, though:</div><div>the milk.</div><div>and then I pick up the eggshells.</div><div><br></div><div>I glue them together </div><div>for witches<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"> to make boats of</span></div><div>in which they will endeavour </div><div>to sink my ship some other day. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div>redandcaramelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12099466265368917383noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4550943853691870524.post-57602451264111425822014-07-16T14:35:00.001-07:002014-07-16T14:36:38.573-07:00the golden amber pause<div>slender fingers unbind </div><div>knotted formality</div><div>unpacking hours</div><div>filing away the day </div><div><br></div><div>awkward little feet </div><div>reside adjacent</div><div>wriggling some rhythm</div><div>but never keeping time </div><div><br></div><div>at some point</div><div>the universe resumes </div><div>all concerned will mourn </div><div>the golden amber pause</div>redandcaramelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12099466265368917383noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4550943853691870524.post-56642784866712947152014-07-06T12:12:00.001-07:002014-07-06T12:12:04.754-07:00city of stems<div>summer is: </div><div>lying in a universe of yellow</div><div>and deciding that in this moment </div><div>heaven is here,</div><div>in the garden;</div><div>A city of stems</div><div><br></div>redandcaramelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12099466265368917383noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4550943853691870524.post-72950130681636612042014-05-21T17:49:00.001-07:002014-05-21T17:49:38.622-07:00Subway<div><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">What was at one time</span></div><div>A faded orange rectangle:</div><div>Suddenly crisp </div><div>As new, clean snow</div><div><br></div><div>Connections we</div><div>Had long lost hope for</div><div>Run once again </div><div>Perfectly on time.</div>redandcaramelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12099466265368917383noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4550943853691870524.post-1321094958367941272014-05-16T12:38:00.001-07:002014-05-16T12:38:34.715-07:00Fade<div>I'm prepared to fade</div><div>If it would just </div><div>make you </div><div>go away</div><div><br></div>redandcaramelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12099466265368917383noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4550943853691870524.post-60988440645263411402014-05-11T16:43:00.001-07:002014-05-11T16:43:01.996-07:00spectre<div><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">uppercut to the glass jaw</span></div><div>lost keys </div><div>not ever to be returned </div><div><br></div><div>whoever said </div><div>"the best things in life </div><div>are the things </div><div>where the journey </div><div>is difficult </div><div>and arduous"</div><div>obviously hadn't met you</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>the memory of it</div><div>still has the ability</div><div>To haunt me </div><div>even though</div><div>all that you are is</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>a fading spectre of a past life</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>redandcaramelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12099466265368917383noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4550943853691870524.post-542962270408132902014-05-03T17:11:00.001-07:002014-05-03T17:11:45.148-07:00Beside me<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;">I know you'd rather </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;">Be beside me right now, pal</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;">them's the bloody breaks </p>redandcaramelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12099466265368917383noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4550943853691870524.post-70290241943494833372014-04-17T12:39:00.001-07:002014-04-17T12:39:20.863-07:00Animal Birthday<div>animal birthday </div><div><br></div><div>learning to be a lioness</div><div>basking, actually basking </div><div>under the naked sun </div><div><br></div><div>one song can still overturn</div><div>churn earth, where new flowers </div><div>Had just begun to take root</div><div><br></div><div>The significance of labour:</div><div>In and of itself, even if nothing else,</div><div>at least she is planting again</div>redandcaramelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12099466265368917383noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4550943853691870524.post-76578157354237394332014-04-11T06:44:00.001-07:002014-04-11T06:44:55.934-07:00You Poor Fool<div><br></div><div>why are you</div><div>letting the thought</div><div>claw away your insides </div><div>scraping pink tissue</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>did you really</div><div>for even a moment </div><div>think</div><div>that it would just cease to exist </div><div><br></div><div>you poor fool </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><div><br></div>redandcaramelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12099466265368917383noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4550943853691870524.post-57724371891106754372014-03-28T10:42:00.001-07:002014-03-28T10:42:13.320-07:00Psycho pig<div>Sometimes</div><div>I try to hold on </div><div>To something I really like</div><div>And by the time</div><div>I can talk about it</div><div>I forget</div><div>And all I remember is</div><div>You</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Psycho pig 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out</span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>redandcaramelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12099466265368917383noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4550943853691870524.post-4295429897859854052014-03-24T15:26:00.001-07:002014-03-24T15:26:21.508-07:00watermelon<div>watermelon</div><div>so abundant to begin </div><div>now mocking skin remains </div><div>reminds</div><div><br></div><div>flesh crawls</div><div>evidence of enthusiasm</div><div>since ceased</div><div>sticky cheeks repulse </div>redandcaramelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12099466265368917383noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4550943853691870524.post-32107052211069858852014-03-23T14:46:00.001-07:002014-03-23T14:46:47.425-07:00the day with you in it<div>the day with you in it</div><div>allows nature to seize me </div><div>for herself</div><div><br></div><div>cultivating:</div><div>a wormery some days,</div><div>a bee hotel at other times</div><div><br></div><div>"It's never boring"</div><div>is my way of saying</div><div>it isn't good</div><div><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">but it's better than nothing </span></div>redandcaramelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12099466265368917383noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4550943853691870524.post-68291377785438295812014-03-21T16:55:00.001-07:002014-03-21T16:56:30.500-07:00when I was small<div><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">when I was small</span></div><div>after playing outside </div><div>in the blazing sun</div><div>I had to sit in the classroom</div><div>doing fractions.</div>redandcaramelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12099466265368917383noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4550943853691870524.post-45531437194424736402014-03-20T12:41:00.001-07:002014-03-20T12:42:58.381-07:00Springtime in the Steel Cave<div><br></div><div><i>pretty amazed at myself for still feeling able to write about love. </i></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b>Untitled </b></div><div><br></div><div>crushed petals </div><div>inside the steel cave,</div><div>cartoon swoons</div><div>once believed to be myth.</div><div><br></div><div>bones actually bend:</div><div>the structure of my possible </div><div>adapts,</div><div>because I met you.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>redandcaramelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12099466265368917383noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4550943853691870524.post-10110578144135187332014-03-18T16:21:00.001-07:002014-03-18T16:21:27.966-07:00Open Water<div>sea monsters writhe</div><div>emerald and cobalt</div><div>so desperate</div><div>so sensitively alive </div><div>they are prepared to self destruct</div><div>in order to be free</div><div><br></div><div>the open water brings </div><div>white, see through, </div><div>perfect chances</div><div><br></div><div>momentarily dazzled</div><div>only the fight</div><div>the appalling tragedy of captivity</div><div>can give this liberty</div><div>a place in their history </div>redandcaramelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12099466265368917383noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4550943853691870524.post-49299991997879306182014-03-16T05:04:00.001-07:002014-03-16T05:04:20.506-07:00Cartographing<div><b>Cartographing </b></div><div><br></div><div>a sky in recovery;</div><div>violet and lavender hues</div><div><br></div><div>panning my own insides </div><div>for gold</div><div><br></div><div>making new meaning,</div><div>sextant in fist.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>redandcaramelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12099466265368917383noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4550943853691870524.post-28319518428889993552014-03-14T16:48:00.001-07:002014-03-14T16:48:37.076-07:00There's No Needcouple of new poems. one written on the train and one in my house.<div><br></div><div><div><b>The Morning After</b></div><div><br></div><div>Hooks fish inside for sins</div><div>As I scour over the raw</div><div>Barely remembered </div><div>Hours for clues</div><div>Sandpaper and acid stripping back</div><div>Paying no heed to fun.</div><div><br></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>There's No Need</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div>Scorpions pull</div><div>Tendons </div><div>Stretch their best</div><div>There's no need</div><div>Really</div><div>None at all</div><div>I can do it to myself</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>redandcaramelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12099466265368917383noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4550943853691870524.post-62669493548738324972013-07-17T14:11:00.001-07:002013-07-17T14:11:39.485-07:00Haiku Wednesday<div style="text-align: center;">
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Galactic secrets</div>
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Before that we dreamed</div>
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Precipice of pause</div>
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By the seashore the world halts</div>
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Time forgets to wait</div>
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