Your stop for the annual poetry fic challenge!

From Self-Portrait Against Red Wallpaper

I hope it's love. I'm trying really hard
to make it love.

From Driving, Not Washing

They want you to love the whole damn world but you won't,
you want it all narrowed down to one fleshy man in the bath,

From Planet of Love

you play along,
because you want to die for love,
you always have.

From Boot Theory

A man takes his sadness down to the river and throws it in the river
but then he's still left with the river.

From Saying Your Names

All night I stretched my arms across
him, rivers of blood, the dark woods, singing

From Seaside Improvisation

but tell me
you love this, tell me you're not miserable.

From The Dislocated Room

This is the in-between, the waiting that happens
in the space between one note and the next

From Detail of the Fire

Let's admit, without apology, what we do to each other.
We know who our enemies are. We know.

From Little Beast

I couldn't get the boy to kill me, but I wore his jacket for the longest time.

From Detail of the Hay Field

We stopped. We held the field. We stood very still.