Pinned

The clouds closed down the day.

The morning leaked electricity.

I spy her down the street avoiding everybody.

I thought at least she'd look at my eyes.

Like a zombie suddenly flooded with memory,

She's just another Rachel 

Refusing every comfort.

Love can hit you heavy

Like a cold and hollow pipe

And leave you guessing at familiar names,

And love can carry you some distance gone

Until you're lost on neighborhood avenues.

She melted like the peanut butter

In a bowl of steaming pad thai,

Coating the local world we know.

She never meant to buy

What he was offering,

And now she's chained

To a dead and broken tree

Starving,

Refusing every comfort.

- 1/14/26