I got off my shift and you just started yours
sleeves rolled up we exchange uplifting words
we are workers. we make our freedom! this is how we live
I got off my shift and you just started yours
sleeves rolled up we exchange uplifting words
we are workers. we make our freedom! this is how we live
it took me all of 10 years
to unlock the secrets within
the green cabbage
now she tastes sweet
and i can kick up
my feet
#katyamills
the lady at Chinese Camp
dressed in a floral pattern
warned us the mad river
had escaped. Highway 120
was impassable
we would have to travel
south on 140 to Mariposa
we bought an Indian blanket
and fed the chickens to
thank her for her kindness
#katyamills
we had our final meal of the day
i ordered a burger that was not a burger
combination long drive and hike. Yosemite
we planned to get up before dawn but
it was impossible. i popped a Tylenol
and we slept in
#katyamills
we came upon a mountain
whose face blocked the entire sun
you hiked up the slippery rocks
to where the tremendous waterfall
landed. i followed you
far as i could into the mist
it all happened so fast!
i shouted after you. my clothes
soaked through i lashed myself
to a beech tree there no longer
able to see or hear this is
how you disappear
#katyamills
we followed the Merced river north
on Highway 49
she became a frothy madness
the snow off the peaks filled her banks full
this is what's left of the wildest winter
we got quiet like children with magic
thinking we could contain her
#katyamills
i learned by living
to lower the stakes we set so
high we panic
scared to make a single
mistake...
i learned by living
if you fall it may be bittersweet
for the ground she will
hold you
#katyamills
you
at eleven
was nothing like you
at fourteen
beyond the years
red with fire and no longer
green
please
let me be the one true friend
i refuse to amble along
pretending not
to notice
#katyamills
galaxies
on our fingertips
we rest in a field
sciatica makes you sigh
a secret falls off the lips
up cycled into
sky
#katyamills
#katyamills
we locals
not casting out very far
wheel around town in a three door car
you know our names and we know yours
stop at the candy store and the bar
for some steady gossip to remedy
any overthink with a steady
drink
#katyamills
perfection. the dalliance ends now. stop the fuckery. i am with friends i walk with good intent. the weight of age and time the only pain i carry. no longer self-inflicted. my royal flush ends with a wild card. the feeling you get after you lost it all. to live on. #katyamills
wistful you push us too hard. with some slow burn desire you push us. you push us too hard. you sing this song night and day feverish after what you long for yourself. please. sit back and count the stars. the hour you meet the world. let things be as they are. #katyamills
they dragged him out to the fields middle of the night and roughed him up good. she woke up alone and wondered why. locked out of the house he somehow managed to climb over the fence. she found him sprawled out in the backyard, shirt torn, under the influence of apricity.
#katyamills
at ninety-seven the allure was still living in his own home he built in the fifties with the help of a friend. he fought the knees. they did not want to get him up and standing. he ordered tamales and empanadas by the dozen and gave them away to anyone who helped. #katyamills
languid and still drunk
you took your bottomless coffee
like medicine to ill effect
you could still love bro
sometimes that's how it goes bro
always up on your toes bro
heart broken like the eggs over
your grand slam special
#katyamills
she had done herself up and sumptuous by nightfall. he watched her drag her glass bottle coke with a straw. he already had her heart but could not know. hidden behind a heavy fortification of eyelash, cool undertones with a touch of cosmic apple blush. #katyamills
saturday
you got me a manicure
the color was pretty in pink
we ate fresh tamales
watched the movie about a hotel in Budapest
and woke up to birdsong
and cats watching
the nest
#katyamills
#katyamills
the thoughts were like
poison mixed into a moscow
mule and killed the hour
you believed
them
#katyamills
broil the salmon
golden pink
stop the thoughts
before you think
you don't have to feel bad
about it
anymore
#katyamills
backstory
flicks off a screen
replicated churned out
the machine
acne and scars
stitched up in pixels
strung out like guitars
mixed at the top of harp-shaped lungs
sampling the primitive
audio of tongues
this is the age
of ai
#katyamills
on hard times
fallen
the days turned strange
maudlin
easily bruised
turning colors
laughing and jumping
they twitch
as if turned by a switch
into night
unable to register
any longer
the light
#katyamills
#katyamills
is a command
a letter with intent on a flaw finding mission
a plastic screenplay run through ai
generating artificial tears
to torture my wounds
thanks to your love
i love to be
alone
#katyamills