K Jackson

I'm still uncovering
Pieces of you
In this place we lived
Together.

The label maker
When turned on
Said your name
Gravity landed hard on my thumb as I hit the backspace.

Eight times in a row.

Erasing my need
To place you.

in:sent

Joanna here.  

Sending you the warm of something that feels like vanilla. 

Wanted to let you know

I'm not crafting sewers anymore. 

heaps of trash 

with wailing arms. 

I've given that all up.

I want you to know
I don't hold your name hostage. 

I acknowledge the grey area. In all things.
Everything is a grey area, until it's not. 

A gnarled tree, rotting, nearly falling over, crawling with bugs

still sighs a kind of refuge. 

I just wasn't ready to jump into lover-hood.
It took me by surprise. Such a proposition.
And you must have known, I didn't come to you for that.
Immediately, I felt boxed in.
A feeling of trap grew around me
Blazed 'warning' in my mind.
It was innocent, enough... consensual on paper.
Still, my eyes blinked in smoke.

A man in power, reaching down to me.  

For sex.
While I was reaching up to him
to be taken seriously.

So, yeah, lately, I have been thinking of you.
What happened with us.
My path, crossed with yours.   

I'm writing, currently. 

Evolving.

Going in circles that move.

THOT

For you not in the know

THOT 

Translates to

That hoe over there

Now that you know,
Click it. 

Caramel Candy

You look different somehow 

I’m riding the train right now

Riding it clear outta town 

And someone here smells like you

The way your arm pit did

When I snuggled into it

And told you I’d never loved... 

Never loved like this before

Faith in men was restored 

Loved saved me from feelin forlorn

I was cast to sea

Till your arms found me

Three Children cry on the bus

Star dawn into star dusk

Lettin go is always rough

I watch the weeds below 

whip into a small tornadoe

I get to smellin you

I smile & think about

The laughs we’d laugh about

How fast the world goes round

Your Irish furrowed brow

I still could pick you out 

Pick you out of a crowded crowd,

But maybe the years without
Have changed us
Cuz you look different somehow.

Ripping off Paul McCartney's "Every Night"

In the dark I lay with my eyes wide / So full of the day.   / In the light I stand with my arms crossed / Not sure what to say 

Every sky gets cloudy some day

But every cloud's not framed by blue oo oo oo oo 

OO today I feel I'm flyin'

Straight into you...

Straight into you.

You oo oo oo oo oo oo oooooo oooo

oooooo oooo

oooo oooo

You oo oo oo oo oo oo oooooo oooo

oooooo oooo

oo oo oo oo

 In the dark I open the windows / It's winding me down.  /  In the light I pull all the shades close / It's blinding without

And every sky has its star-shine

But not all star-shine gets a view oo oo oo oo 

OO today I feel like fallin'

All over you

All over you.