JR : Writing

The Other Is The Dark

The Other Is The Dark

A Poem by JR


One of us is fire, the other water indifferent we go one of us is current, the other rubber like a mat to stop the flow one of us is hig..
UFO

UFO

A Poem by JR


I saw something in the sky the other night, something I’d waited my whole life to see, something that didn’t belong to the geomet..
Give Up The Ghost

Give Up The Ghost

A Poem by JR


Maryanne I’ve given up that ghost that used to follow us around, back in our hometown, to the desert from city to town, apartment to ho..
Bloodless

Bloodless

A Poem by JR


I saw her body and it was bloodless and gray she covered the pillow with her blond hair, hands folded, up against the satin and her ma..
Jay Says

Jay Says

A Poem by JR


There was no star before the universe no thought before thinking no heartbeat before tissue or juice before the vine there was no love bef..
Promise

Promise

A Poem by JR


I would read you poetry in bed, as I’ve promised you could rest you head so softly, let the dark hair spread across my chest we..
Draw Blood

Draw Blood

A Poem by JR


Ruin or salvation there is something I seek, and I find by falling when my knees get weak and give way, the only method I lean on is my mi..
Oyster

Oyster

A Poem by JR


I ate her raw like I would an oyster, all tongue and no teeth the way she wanted to be eaten, she made herself a feast of perfume and loti..
Pins

Pins

A Poem by JR


They grow in cedar chips like me, they start as pins and then expand, up and out, full flesh eating up the space that used to be air, lik..
Scare Bear

Scare Bear

A Poem by JR


They hunt you this time for your brain and not your body they seem to be everywhere, all sides, pressing in they want you scared, they want y..