Elizabeth : Writing

Searching for Patterns

Searching for Patterns

A Poem by Elizabeth


I’ve been here before, not this store, but some store on a day with made-to-order rain, where brightly colored merchandise blurred before m..
Howl

Howl

A Poem by Elizabeth


Nothing to do with Ginsberg's poem, rather about "Howl's Moving Castle" and the strange dream I had last week. It probably won't make any sense if you..
Waiting

Waiting

A Poem by Elizabeth


This café is too close to the street for outdoor tables. The traffic rumbles by across the bricks disrupting my reading and flavoring my co..
Welling

Welling

A Poem by Elizabeth


Rising from the dark veins of the earth or the slender throbbing veins of the body, swelling up from a narrow stone-walled chasm what's concealed ..
The Spider's Grasp

The Spider\'s Grasp

A Poem by Elizabeth


a poem that needs a better title :P largely about wanting someone you can't have
Surfaces

Surfaces

A Poem by Elizabeth


about seeing a Rothko painting at the MOMA
The Fading

The Fading

A Poem by Elizabeth


Day by day you become less and less substantial, a love letter where the writing is fading away. Each day I don't hear from you erases som..
The White Lady's Lament

The White Lady\'s Lament

A Poem by Elizabeth


You turn from me toward the Paths of the Dead. Now pass all my hopes into darkness. You leave me so little, not even a glance, only your pity and..
Eden

Eden

A Poem by Elizabeth


Let me give you what you seek it is within me let me grant you peace my undulating coils, twisting at your feet do not crush me with your heel ..
Hemispheres

Hemispheres

A Poem by Elizabeth


i try to sleep when you're awake, adding and subtracting the hours knowing when i climb into bed you are dressing for work, eating you..