Yummy
You’re like pastry
Shimmering
In fluorescent light
I want to caress
Your creamy chocolate eyes
Grab you
Taste the sweet jelly filling
Inside folds of your skin
My hungry hand
Pressed helplessly
On this window
Between you and me
Will you be my valentine?
With My Love in the Lounge
I want to be with you
Not for minutes or hours
But till these vinyl couches
Become threadbare
Days, weeks, and months
Stretch out before us
Till the stars stop dancing
The moon begins to frown
I want to…
Keep the milk from souring
The air from turning stale
Anything to make you stay
Tears and Dirt
Nothing I do
Is ever enough for you
You’re a cup
Cracked on the bottom
That cannot be filled
A dark hole
Where no diamond will shine
No words can touch
Your eyes too fogged to see
Your heart too polluted
All you know
Are your river of tears
Acres of dirt
In which I drown
In which I struggle
To break free
Artist:
Jackie Chou is a poet residing in sunny Southern California who writes free verses and Japanese short form poetry. Her work has been published in Dreamwell One Hundred Memories anthology, JOMP 21 Dear Mr. President anthology, Spectrum, Lummox, Creative Talents Unleashed anthologies, and others. She was nominated for a Best of the Net in 2017 by Hidden Constellation.
