olive

farmed and milled

stabbed with a pitch an

dropped in your gin

resilient

self-contained

closing my eyes i taste the earth

in you the hunger of an arid

land everyone wrote

off

like me and you like

me and 

you

#katyamills

picture this

the flanks of chalk made colorful clouds 

now they could see her feelings

on the blackboard. still

nobody could know what really happened 

to her 4 telling the truth was

against the rules in a world of cream

pies and blue skies  

she took the white soldiers 

and broke them   #katyamills

com.rad.ery

we met in the deep night of our despair

like candles we cast some wavering 

unpredictable glow over the darkness 

our monsters walking the walls we knew 

we could not last 

our energy burning hot 

guarded close to the heart 

so we talked until our tears dried

our pain shared pushed round by the wind

then in that hopeless place we made a pact

sincere and fought like hell   #katyamills

america today

heavy metals

oils

market forces

labor and currency

diverse

eclipsing authority

churches

monarchies

system proof seeking

freedom

you cannot live

unless you give her

your all

#katyamills

the news

like soda and red meat and cigarettes and amphetamines and downers and painkillers they swore off the news. now they have no idea what's going on and it's the best thing that never happened

worlds like poems

some will be clear and bright 

and calm others

hot messy dangerous some 

will endure others gone in an instant

collective memory keeps them alive

like poems worlds begin

and end  #katyamills

july. heated love

i cannot slacken the pace 

without work i am nothing

she said filling out the unemployment forms 

gulping polish vodka. an easy forgotten sense of safety 

danced toe to heel in the darkest corner of the bar

he lit the newport @ the edge of her lip and

with hopes of having her

played therapist   

#katyamills