Originally posted on The 365 Poetry Project:
Heavy as fruit on the branch, pulled downward, a soul can fade, poisoned with ghosts. Helpless as sea grass afloat, tossed about, a soul can waste, menaced by ghosts. Who is so strong to…
Charlotte Cuevas
Year 2: Day 162 – Potatoes
Originally posted on The 365 Poetry Project:
“I’ve had so many fathers that leave and you’ll be another one, wait and see-” something about a sack of potatoes, she says. She’s right that her wounds aren’t exposed for me to clean,…
Year 2 : Day 59 – I Met The Future
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I met the future as a cat of nine tails, each one slivered with glass, and the whip-master said, “Choose your road, your pain, your handrail into the dark.” I would’ve cried, I would’ve…
Year 2: Day 118 – The Walls That Keep Us All Out
Originally posted on The 365 Poetry Project:
Big hurt in the collective heart, teach me to feel another’s pain. Teach me to see beyond camouflage, costumes, facades, and masks, beyond the walls that keep us all out. Big heart of our…
Year 2: Day 97 – Sonnets
Originally posted on The 365 Poetry Project:
Read sonnets to me in the coffee nights, in the back alley doorways where the creatures scurry, where the drippings from tailpipes beat measures we sing by the moon. Dig holes in the earth…
Year 2: Day 69 – No Time For Dreams
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Vertical pillow on the left-hand side, just enough space for a dream, but who has time for dreams anymore, anyway? Man on the corner selling drugs needs gas; can of mace, tin of brownies…
Year 2: Day 20 – Where I Was
Originally posted on The 365 Poetry Project:
I thought I had grown out of circles, I thought time just passing was proof, I thought it was time to step out, I thought I could take it. But the more I measure…
Year 2: Day 3 – Written With Guilt And Not At All
Originally posted on The 365 Poetry Project:
It’ll be written with guilt and not at all, everything I wish I could write to you, a thousand lines in a teardrop wiped away before bed again. In the morning I stand on…
Candy Pizza Is Here!: A Video Message From The Author
Originally posted on The 365 Poetry Project:
Super exciting stuff happening here in Charsville; today’s the day you can finally get your hands on a copy of my new book, Candy Pizza: Poetry’s that’s Fun and Healthy 🙂 As promised, here…
Day 335 – Stasis
Posted on August 9, 2014 by Charlotte Cuevas A photograph of leaves on the quiet forest floor, no evidence of hidden life, though they tell you- of course, it is so. There is a time to die but when the… Read More ›
