Showing posts with label broken hearts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label broken hearts. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 11, 2015

You Made an Ass Out of Me: Yeah Write Microstories

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I heaved it effortlessly; 
children playing catch. 
You turned it around lackadaisically 
while I looked away. Seeing us.
Trusting, happily distracted, and assuming 
you had it. But you were reckless.
Together, we watched it shatter.
I’m right where I started.
Fooled and
Erehwon.

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Trifecta: Paper Hearts


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We’re taught to properly crease, deliberately trace, and carefully cut. Unfolded, mirror images wondrously appear reflecting its perfect completeness. When it tears, because it will, it doesn’t rip symmetrically. Someone always hurts more.


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This was written for Trifecta’s final challenge (tears) using the following prompt:

“There's no topic, no word, just a free write. Go anywhere your mind wants to travel.  Take us there too.  Just make it count, leave your blood all over this page.  Thirty-three words exactly.  Of course.  We couldn't end it any other way.”

Thank you, Trifecta, for bringing all of us together. And thanks to everyone who’s spent even one minute reading the words I’ve written over the last two and a half years in connection with Trifecta, or otherwise. It means the world to me.