Your legs are long and sweet resting like caramel candy on a pillow of spun sugar. They shake and quiver in my dreams at the start, not end of a banquet table lined with fruits both forbidden and fair. Who will meet a hungry taveller from the dusty road and offer them refreshments? Perhaps it…
Author: Dr Rose Petrohilos
Writing, cups of tea + music on rainy days.
Sweet Little Lies
I planted a seed in your garden where you said plant And I watered it with my blood and tears You told me it was safe there even when I said I can’t // I saw the future unfolding before me powerless to run And I begged of you to spare me You told me…
Apple Trees
Apple trees are seeds that you plant when you’re being chaotic Spreading joy wildly while throwing cores out of a speeding car “Here!” they like to say to the Earth “I’ll grow here!” “And there!” they yell pretty wildly “I’ll grow anywhere!” We’re a resiliant, reliable, pleasant bunch we wonderous Fruits of Eden We’ll grow…
Sawdust
I once met a person covered in smoke and glitter, glowing like fire in the evening sun They lit up like a flare in the dark sweetly bitter, unholy with ashes and rivers unrun I knew that charcoal is nourishing and true and I wasn’t scared of the flames But they burned me alive from…
Under A Witching Wood
Under a witching tree in a witching wood I met a wooded witch who whispered to me tales of the divine Of wood nymphs wearing spectacles and frogs who once kissed turned into princes and of forests that gleamed with silver and blood in the light of a full moon And she told me too…
Trippenenny
If I had three pennies to give you for every one you gave me Why wouldn’t I just keep giving them to you forever? Why would I ever get worried or jealous or concerned that you had three or every time I got one? And for all I knew, perhaps you had three children to…
Find Me Sugar
Finest of sweetness that aches in my bones, come carry come carry come carry me home There’s tea in the kettle clean sheets for the bed, oh bring me the candy that’s heroine read Bring me two fine lovers that fill me with warmth, their sweaty fine stories that tickle me taut So find me…
Flightless
Just when we were set to take flight I felt a pull to the Earth and I saw a sudden light And I won’t pretend I didn’t steal all my own dreams grasping eyes wide open at the seams Did it hurt you when I finally touched the ground when I spoke did your heart…
Loving You
Loving you is like loving water Ever-flowing and ever-nourishing The stuff of blood and legends // Loving you is like loving myself With respect and care you touch me Pricking my eyes with tears // Loving you is like loving no other And for all my days I will swear it true That I have…
MarieAthena & Co 