By Amy Simone Piller
When the kettle whispers
about to boil
When it is gray and almost
release to rain
When briefly nothing coheres
time out
When song words reappear
perchance
Faint sound of ringing
my ears as if detached
Late nights of loud music
standing outside
cool breeze
suddenly fresh
Trojan horse
almost
come closer
you should know
the castle of my body
not my strong walls only
Knocking heartbeat
tap resound
tickle tempt
touch
There is always
more
never enough
By Amy Simone Piller
1.
Some people call you a shrub
Some people do not know
what they are missing
2.
Some people say you act
sensitive
I know you are
but what am I?
We are not stones
We are here sensing
one another
3.
Some people say you act
feminine
What does this mean?
That you reach
ecstatically
for the sun?
That you come
in many colors?
That you like a cool drink
in a curved [...]
By Amy Simone Piller
1.
I wait for you
burst of color
What do you wait for?
2.
You are a spectacular mess
clustered in intricacies
no one need understand
In certain lights
I know though
you too
strive for this
You triple axel of trees
3.
Do you wonder
when to confetti
fortunate passersby
Do you feel let down
when you have landed?
3.
If you could
float back up
Rewind again
upend amend
Would you
be less
beautiful then?
4.
Someone uses a leaf blower
on [...]
By Amy Simone Piller
1.
Each year I fear for you
Will you come early?
Will snow come late?
Will you not
bloom?
And then you are here
so vibrant
and so brief
A cruel affair
I long to repeat
2.
How does it feel to be
a moment?
Like unrequited lust?
Let down
lingering on
Or like the fluttering of wings
before unfurling fingers
flight?
3.
Only a couple of days later
you look so sad
The wait never worth it
4.
This [...]
By Amy Simone Piller
Suddenly you return
overrunning my wall
with your overabundance
By Amy Simone Piller
Dear Orchid,
I think I may
abuse you
After our careful courtship
of directions on weekly watering
and other such basic maintenance
I promptly forgot
which day I started
Each time I walk by
I feel so much guilt
that I am killing you
that I let you wilt longer
When I finally convince myself to respond
I significantly overdo it
Perhaps you are now drowning
And now [...]
By Amy Simone Piller
You canopy over
the overthought avenues
with all their right angles
carefully measured
All that
and still they pale
in comparison to you
When you brush against me
mindless petal
you make me
gentle
I meander
thinking I can learn
to slow myself
But lights flash
and I brush you off
brusquely continuing
to wherever it was I was going
desperately trying
to remember
why it seemed to important before
By Amy Simone Piller
1.
There is something wrong
with tulips on fifth avenue
They are penned in too close
like New Years Eve
meant to be fun
and yet
2.
You are not wild
someone planted you
Even I planted you
here in this poem
Hello
3.
You are coquettish
you want to be
peeled back
I wish I could
and let you be
still you
4.
Would you let me
trope to you?
I could be sun dappled
and ready to [...]
By Amy Simone Piller
1.
Oh Ocean
are you always lost
at sea?
Do you even want
to be found?
2.
Let me call you
little wave
Get to know each
ripple and rise
its own story
apartments in a sky scraper
silence in a subway car
neighbors that never met
until
3.
I am a ship in a bottle
Swallow me up already
will you?
4.
Dark depths of unknown
let me explore all of you
that is unsure
Your many molecules [...]
By Amy Simone Piller
1.
Local lake
where things go to land
you love the lost leaves of fall
the bread crusts
a father threw for his daughter’s smile
more than for the ducks
for the memory
light in her eyes
For you things just are as is
plus whatever comes
Let this be me
late at night
who you silently hope will
walk far enough down the darkened path
to skinny dip [...]