Tag: Relationships

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Short Waves

Zouxzoux

Words traveled on the breeze on moonlit nights, moonless nights, rainy nights, humid nights, freezing nights, floating over houses where husbands and wives bickered, over bars where voyeurs eyeballed each other while drinking their courage, over city streets slipping under the feet of the maligned miscreant running from shadow to shadow. Words spoken in the flickering light of the TV through a filter of whiskey, under the sheets of a missing person sleeping in a car in a hospital parking lot. Words heard in an empty room smelling of paint and cigarettes and desperation while children do homework and eat … Continue reading Short Waves

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February 14

Zouxzoux

I don’t need to hear you say “I love you”, I want to know you do by the look in your eyes, the touch of your hand, the way you listen when I talk. I don’t need candy, flowers, diamonds or trips around the world. I only need you to be there during my darkest hours when I cover my head and wail like a lost child because life has left me bereft. I need you by my side when it counts: when the hurricane is coming, when loved ones die, when friends desert, when I fall into the biggest, … Continue reading February 14

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Wingless

Charlotte Hamrick

We watched for the return of the birds. The air around the house was silent and devoid of flutterings, a vacuum of tweets and whistles. What straggling flowers were left went hummingbirdless while twigs and string were just twigs and string with no hope of sheltering featherless offspring. It was strangely quiet, as though they were all sucked into a void somewhere and became dinosaurs again in another dimension. Kind of like our love, they were a wondrous memory for a time until slowly finding their way back home. Continue reading Wingless

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Jolt

Zouxzoux

Whenever I find myself wishing I lived alone, I’m going to remember this day.  I’m going to remember the silence that is not peaceful, that is not only the absence of sound but the absence of you.  I’m going to remember that you weren’t here when I turned to share a thought or here to ask why when the caller ID didn’t work. You weren’t here when I needed help with the old dog nor when it was time to eat. I ate alone and it didn’t seem worth it – without you. I did my normal chores and the … Continue reading Jolt