Did You Think?
Did you think
I wouldn’t notice,
or care,
that you disappeared
like a puff of smoke?
Did you think
you wouldn’t notice,
or care,
that you missed me?
Did you think?
Lindsay Riggs Brown
Side-Swiped
(For M.R.T.)
His story cuts me to the quick.
secrets told after
an intimacy shared,
perhaps too soon.
Voice breaking,
heart broken
but spirit strong
after six
very short, very long years
And I know exactly what he means
when he tells me
he lost everything that day.
Everything..
After he put down his weapon,
before he surrendered himself,
he found his straight edge.
The piece
of the puzzle of his life
that let him
begin again.
Lindsay Riggs Brown
Consumed
“I could just eat you up.”
He tells her,
in the beginning
“You are deliciously delectable.
Sweet and savory”
He bites her lip;
nibbles her ear;
devours her scent;
suckles her breast;
and tastes her tongue
“I could just eat you up.”
He tells her,
in the beginning.
...and in the end…
he does.
Lindsay Riggs Brown
I call
for direction.
don’t lose me here;
not now.
a cold discarded penny
on wet pavement.
The phone smells
like other people’s voices.
Snow’s falling
across a silver, steel span
called the
but I’ve no destination
on an empty night.
If I could,
I would make time crawl
to me on its hands and knees
and you would love me again.
Lindsay Riggs Brown
