i cried in a room of boxes, fleta malting all over me. and i thought, well.i never thought id cry. i never thought id miss a pair of ballet shoes, or a text book. or my mess i never use. i never thought id wonder what to do with socks that are too small and torn for me to wear.

in two days i fly the nest.

darling, in our years together, we discover i can fit my arms around you perfectly. i can curl into you no matter how far you turn away.we write poetry on our bed and you try not to laugh when i stumble over the big words i use when i write about the way i feel about you. you sing to me your stange past that mystified me when we first layed next to each other; and i dig into you, and i learn every wink and every memory you draw on my palm. we watch movies i never thought id bring myself to watch and you look down your nose at my snobbery and i kiss your freckles and bury my face in the covers so you can't see how much im smiling. we teach our children something i could never teach myself and they are perfect, as our love, and they are happy, as we are. you cook for me and i try to cook for you, and i eat from your mouth every pure and devourable thing you have to say, and i lick from your skin something of soap and nectarines and home. we greet every predictable tear with a shoulder and embrace our firey passions as necessary, carthatic, as a means to a beginning.as a means to our forever. we are friend, lover, mother, wife. we are unknowing, we are unbroken. in our years together we discover those times when we didn't kiss, when we brushed against each other unwittingly, are as beautiful and explosive as the hours we made love in. i see that when you shower in the dark you give me more light to search for you. you become used to every bad habit i overcome becoming another for you to recognise. i get used to the idea that i can never get used to you when you are ever changing. you are ever beautiful. in our years together, we grow, we relapse, we learn, we forget, we love, we fight, we make up, we fight again, we are indescribable, we are hopelessly in need and disgustingly in love. we are always.

i sometimes think of my life as a folk song sweet with the whine of a wronged womans guitar. in each twang of each string of each glostening aiiiiiii can over relate to something of longing desire. i used to see myself in events, i used to see myself in a used tissue. i buried myself in some disjointed melody crying to the off beat, strangling myself with an overused chord.

love creeps, jumps at you from dark corners. Startling, the least expected of bumps in the night. It grabs you by the throat, pulls you around to her mouth, and holds you closer than you ever dreamt you'd know.

in this heart where things are taken heavy things are sliding sweetly lightly through my knotty hair i can feel your sweat on me or is that my own im beating quick the tapping of heels on an empty street your eyes are tired when they meet me. your eyes are a journey when you kiss me. we dream of a two story house with more bedrooms than we need it makes my stomach turning struggling to fill itself in redemption shudder clean sheets and tupperware parties singing in your studio with my mouth shut dancing in the living room with new furniture on the new sheets. leaping through i can feel something i recall my parents once told me was happiness this is where we join each others paths so wavered and nervous so unsure most decided i kiss you with open eyes treasure that smile and we're moving out. and we're moving in.

i bite my lip
and i can taste blood
on my tounge.
like when i taste you;
i savour every pearl,
press you into me
our fingers impetuous,
impending
molden in kisses
in dark places
and in holding your hand.

a single red drop in my white carebear underwear; a reminder i am woman, i am roaring in my implicant complacency to be. Men see themself in a squirt of creamy substance that trickles and dries unused. i see my future in snow white lips as red as blood on snow, life looming, life pulsating.

my stomach is growing-i can feel the skin expand as i breathe wonder if this is what its like to be pregnant, aware of every hidden movement and growth, slowly growing in my self content with the way my body can suddenly change on me.

my parents have been married for 25 years. 'and i never stopped loving her' he said. except for that time he cheated on her and told her he was leaving for another woman, i thought.

every 3 minutes and the time it takes to breathe in / the time it takes to stop myself from crying i look out the window for her. i know i shouldn't expect to hear from her but i always do anyway, and in between the depth of time where im looking out the window and when im looking at the screen im glancing at my phone, im thinking about her driving by herself in the rain, a scene near the end of the movie-just before it all gets resolved and she kisses me. any moment now, im thinking, any moment. she'll come back. 'are you ok?' my mum asked me. im ok. i don't care if we fight forever. i will spend the rest of forever fighting for her. she'll come back.

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or i'll come running.

i called someone at work whos name was Sappho-she probably didn't know who Sappho was-not some 'who am i what does it all mean' questioning- but SAPPHO. I can feel my heart lift at the thought, which shows how strange the things that excite me are, but it does make me dizzy with the thought of old poetry and all that comes with it. So gorgeously enriched-and I have to say enriched though it's long and sweet unbareable-enriched with history; with delving for some universty lecture written at high school standard, connotations that find me related, realised. It is in her writing, not that lesbian undertones, or the historical spectacle that captivates; that which surrounds each subtle phrase and circumstance, but the honest, timeless, way anyone is able to see themself in a poem. Even a poem written by a greek lesbian, thousands of years ago.

i soon realised the way i write is completely predictable and exactly like everybody else. which is a lovely metaphor for everything, really.

a man with a flashlight
apologised.
i had my skirt above my knees
crouched over her
my breasts covered
only by her mouth.

against cement
she asked me
to have a baby with her
and she promised
she would never leave.

we were drunk
and helpless
to each other,
i couldnt remember much
but yes
i couldnt remember much
but her
but forever.

messy love,
i forgot that hours earlier
id been pushed to the ground
we made love on.

her kisses were torrent
love crossed
with the burn of anger
intrepid
with everything that had happened.
it made her forget
the tense feeling
that came
with loving someone
indefinitely,
when she threw things at her lover.

this very cute little kitten just slammed itself against my window framed in my view it was waiting to be let in. that same cat ran down my hallway and ate my cat's dinner last year.

curved in to the small of your back
cattipillar fingers
make light
pick the sleep from my eye.
it's a long train ride
to think
of the minute
and infinite details
you carry,
chocolates on sticks
and toy koalas,
your anger,
your kisses.

theres so much of me in you

if ani taught me one thing
(though she taught me many)
its that i am more than
and then some,
i am a whirpool
that sucks me dry.
i am my own disease
til my own mother tells me
i am disapearing.
i am all things good,
and worse
different if not
the same
i am the dim lighting in my bedroom
turning off my switch,
locking shut my door.
there i sat,
looking right at me
thinking
she is the reason
they are unhappy
she is the fault
in her tv screen
she is poor punctuation
in a poem unfinished.
she is that very tear
waiting to escape.
i have sung along
and understood
that i am puzzling
and infinite
in the girl i am.
i have listened
and waited
and danced
to find myself
(happy)

3 houses down
a cat died on the footpath.
eyes like my wifes,
i ran to my mother
and cried.
all dogs go to heaven
cats just lie
still
as streets,
as a sunny day.