amanda_joy : Writing

After Your Voice

After Your Voice

A Poem by amanda_joy


Your voice is like a telephone ringing in a room with all the doors taken off and windows broken. I am sitting cross-legged and bare-arsed in its cent..
Kiss (A Cinquain)

Kiss (A Cinquain)

A Poem by amanda_joy


Your kiss The dark shadow between your open lips or the mouth surrounding it gives pleasure
Reservoir

Reservoir

A Poem by amanda_joy


I scratch out these marks in space attempt to anchor itinerant meanings and you, your findings pool stain & swell to fil..
Imagined Interiors

Imagined Interiors

A Poem by amanda_joy


The colour came later, Past the dark cluttered words. Tonight we spoke like a frequency graph, Like a landscape without edges, Extruded str..
Ghostling

Ghostling

A Poem by amanda_joy


Deceptively simple the old photo you sent of that windblown girl Some jagged arrangement of cheekbones and arms Jutting out of nine hole boot..
Interpreting Poetry

Interpreting Poetry

A Poem by amanda_joy


This lucid collusion-

 The thieving cat of your mind
 The gulping fish of my heart

 Eyeing each other 
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To Hold

To Hold

A Poem by amanda_joy


In a hand or a pocket concealed close while waiting a stone a seed as some things pass you by Keep it tiny reminder too sm..
To Have

To Have

A Poem by amanda_joy


In these hours before dawn that aren’t night-time My hands feel empty All day they move about without seeing themselves They point..
red

red

A Poem by amanda_joy


Little glass pen that I chew on, wound my expression with wet closeness of cut lips. To answer him with sticky kisses. Undo the corset of dim..
The Blinding of Samson

The Blinding of Samson

A Poem by amanda_joy


Rembrandt’s careful eyes didn’t betray him Like he’d always feared in time they would His painted fascination, drowning pool..