Intimacy breeds expectations
And she just can’t give what they want
Their favorite soul song from the seventies
Are the words that incessantly haunt
The hurt that’s never on purpose
Never seems to sting any less
And her yearning is always fleeting
From the moment that she gets undressed
Inadequacy isn’t a factor
There’s nothing that they could have done
For when she gets up [...]
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Posted in Photography, Writing, poetry, polaroid on May 15th, 2009
No real rest for the weary
We all come tumbling down
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Posted in 35mm, Photography, Writing, holga, poetry on Apr 24th, 2009
Burning Brightly, originally uploaded by vanessa_q.
Sometimes
I just feel so lucky
For every single little detail
Smoke rings and magazine collages
The sunroof and shotgun
Standing on the highest cliff in town
behind a glass house
Every single light
but we all shone much brighter
I was really afraid
the night sky was going to
swallow us whole and spit out
our stupid haircuts
The windows always down
the [...]
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