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  Burning Bridges

  

  By JaneCapelle, Danbury, CT

  The murmur of your apologies seemed to emanate from my phone. As the notifications glowed, I felt the curiosity tingle through my fingers, dancing on the metaphorical fragment of me you shattered months ago. My eyes flickering over the screen, I forced myself to gaze intently on my thoughts; upon th...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  A Fiction Itself

  

  By JaneCapelle, Danbury, CT

  somebody once described to me a fiction where eyes contain galaxies within them, and it's the stars that make them sparkle when a smile dances across their mouth but in disbelief, I wavered for the city lights always drowned out the stars but your gaz...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Cosmos

  

  By JaneCapelle, Danbury, CT

  I can drift away in your arms; float into little cosmic pieces of myself within the cosmos of your gaze that breathe me back together with just a stroke......
• Poetry > Free Verse
  My Chemical Romance

  

  By JaneCapelle, Danbury, CT

  It's so reassuring, the patter of your heart, beneath the My Chemical Romance shirt I gave you for your birthday and it's so depending, the stroke of your hand, upon my arms that don't resemble tiger stripes, all thanks to you...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Mr. Seaman

  

  By JaneCapelle, Danbury, CT

  Who said that you were allowed to die? I didn't get to take one more photo of you in your tomato garden where the lighting isn't quite right-- and I didn't get to say goodbye; and ask you if you'd miss the conceited clicking of my camera peeping through your summer screen...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Dear W. Hunt,

  

  By JaneCapelle, Danbury, CT

  I promise to keep you forever alive in my thoughts and in my prayers In how I clasp my hands together, as small as they are-- must that have been when you held his scarless hand in yours-- I will gaze upon the dear Lord, raising my head, curls tumbling down my back, and hope with all my h...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Linked

  

  By JaneCapelle, Danbury, CT

  I love how you intertwine our fingers, and hold up our hands-- linked-- turning them this way and that, as if admiring how they compliment each other....
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Winter's Pallet

  

  By JaneCapelle, Danbury, CT

  The wind is licking at your face, and pinching roses onto it; they blossom Conflicting against your bright green eyes made humorous by the sun …...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  The Dance of the Snowflakes

  

  By JaneCapelle, Danbury, CT

  Your fingertips whisk through my hair, enlightening it with a dusting of snow; dancing with it, the sparkling chill as your ballroom; frosting it with ribbons; you twirl it around your finger absentmindedly swirling through strand after strand, dancer after dancer, caressing and goodbying...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Saturday Mornings

  

  By JaneCapelle, Danbury, CT

  Saturday mornings with you drizzled all over them; I love the breathless way you say “hello.” Leave your shoes by the door, and your jingling keys on the table, because I don't trust you with that pocket knife....
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Ode to Death's Embrace

  

  By JaneCapelle, Danbury, CT

  I slipped from his arms; (She fell from my embrace) I felt the floor rise up to meet me; (She drew ever nearer to the floor) It was the first time anyone had been there to catch me; (It was too late to stop them from colliding) My skull met the worn tiles; (She collapsed against the c...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Sharpie Scars

  

  By JaneCapelle, Danbury, CT

  He holds out his wrist to me and hands me the deep sea blue Sharpie-- not a scissor. I place my fingers on his palm-- gentle-- and I grasp the Sharpie in my right hand-- not a blade. He is patient, and allows me to inscribe "love" on the inside of his wrist-- not ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  I'm Not A Sl.ut

  

  By JaneCapelle, Danbury, CT

  Trying to suck in my stomach, even though it's my fault for listening and buying the string bikini; Trying to strut, propel my hips, as I walk past him, And he looks me up and down, just like he planned; Trying to make sure there's not much to wonder about As he tugs at the ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Skittles

  

  By JaneCapelle, Danbury, CT

  Why do you insist on buying me the Skittles when they just cascade from the red bag like swollen buttons? And the small Hi-C Orange drink that is so large I won't get through half of it? You got right with the bracelet; I wear it every day like I'll die without it – But food that I have n...
• Nonfiction > Personal Experience
  I Wanna Know What Love Is

  

  By JaneCapelle, Danbury, CT

  A year ago, I didn’t know what love was. I didn’t know if it was how flattered I felt when a sweet, dark-skinned boy wrote me poems about how beautiful he thought I was. Or how giddy I felt when a blue-eyed boy in a camouflage army costume gently kissed my cheek and wrapped his arms around me fo...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Her Words

  

  By JaneCapelle, Danbury, CT

  Her word dissipate once they escape her lips, And burn in the air, breaking at the tips They don't even reach one's own ear Because her words are not something they want to hear....
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Birthday Candles

  

  By JaneCapelle, Danbury, CT

  The three decker cake stood before me on the table All thirteen candles lit and waiting, The wax melting and fading, And the base plunged into the goodness of vanilla icing As the spotlight birthday song continued to be sung. Once it’s over, the candles seem to get brighter, Smiles...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Christmas At All

  

  By JaneCapelle, Danbury, CT

  I'm still waiting for the snow to fall Without it doesn't feel like Christmas at all. The bitter cold taps at the window glass, And wrapping paper surges around me in an endless fabricated sea While ribbons rain down, I struggle for it to pass. Presents are stationed at the bottom...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  My Wonderland

  

  By JaneCapelle, Danbury, CT

  I feel like my world is spinning out of control, And I'm powerless to stop it, Like Alice falling down the rabbit hole. I'm standing in the middle of it all, Watching everything fly by in a slow fall, And like Wonderland, nothing is ever the same; Things are taken away from me as if ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Anonymously Known

  

  By JaneCapelle, Danbury, CT

  English class. I stopped breathing. A typed student's essay is held aloft By the teacher's hand, And I know without looking that it is mine. The teacher starts to read it aloud to the entire class- A judgmental audience- While for now I am anonymous, But my heart stops. I�...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Tear in a Glistening Dress

  

  By JaneCapelle, Danbury, CT

  As the tear slowly treaded down one side of her face, The long train of its glistening dress was left behind to trace. She blinked, and just like a camera flash, Eyes that had been clouded by the tear's dressy sash Suddenly appeared clear as glass As the tear she wiped away, the moment...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Insomniatic

  

  By JaneCapelle, Danbury, CT

  A thousand feathers fluttering down from the nest of a bird who cannot feed her young, A thousand papers flowing in the wind, covered in some new type of tongue. A hundred tears left behind on the bathroom floor that had not been there before, A hundred dry leaves covering the dirt ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Unspoken

  

  By JaneCapelle, Danbury, CT

  The words rose to the Tip of my tongue Piling and piling up Into a big, towering jumble Of letters. I opened my mouth, pursed my Lips, and the words slid Forward-- only to be pushed right back-- The jumble of them--quite A mile long--they all went Unspoken as I swallowed them...
• Art /
  Photo > Photographs
  

  "Say What You Need to Say"

  

  By JaneCapelle, Danbury, CT
• Art /
  Photo > Photographs
  

  Light Up like a Firefly

  

  By JaneCapelle, Danbury, CT