Emily : Writing

Poverty in August

Poverty in August

A Poem by Emily


6:00 a.m. I'm hungry again, belly empty, head full tired, I get up make a pot of bitter generic coffee and peanut butter toast look for jobs c..
experience

experience

A Poem by Emily


While sitting in the temp agency reviewing my resume with a girl 15 years my junior, she asks, what other experience do you have? I thought for a..
unsaid

unsaid

A Poem by Emily


our first conversation was about where we are in the universe a perspective we will never see a tear evolves into a raindrop now an ice cube in my..
Cement

Cement

A Poem by Emily


Assault
37

37

A Poem by Emily


anxiety
Something

Something

A Poem by Emily


Closure
Choices

Choices

A Poem by Emily


Life
Missed Understandings

Missed Understandings

A Poem by Emily


He tells me that he got a job In a department store Selling suits On Wednesday's Thursday's he flips Burgers Friday's he mows ..
Whose fault

Whose fault

A Poem by Emily


When you lose your memory You are always left Wondering what you have Forgotten There is no emotion in amnesia (some ar..
J-

J-

A Poem by Emily


I can still feel Your dark curly hair Tangled in my fingers Your sorrowful lips kissing my sweaty chest Leaving with my new white b..