NaPoWriMo Day 5: Aubade

black-out blinds useless but we didn’t know we moved here in the crook of winter now spring pushes the sun higher a warm alarm or lover who’s big toe slots itself around my Peroneal tendon the sensation is unpleasant I shift this wakes me now for sneezing and hip joints to ache heaving from one

NaPoWriMo Day 3 – Elegy

Day 3 of NaPoWriMo – the prompt to write a elegy, focusing on a particular quality of the subject. I knew death would come up. This poem doesn’t even begin to do justice to Stacey. I have written so many lines and bits and bobs and nothing even scratches the surface about how I feel/who