Reid@YWP

Reid@YWP

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  • red lipstick

    one stick

    one swipe 

    that represents my love

    my adulthood

    so where is my lipstick?

    who's borrowing it tonight?

    who's borrowing my courage coat tonight?

    I need both to appear ready for anything

  • notes

    take note of everything I say

    my feelings are rooted in symbolism and poetry

    my femininity washes over me

    and a guilty realization sets in

    I get to play both parts in my head

    man and woman

  • To Be a Poet

    To be a poet is not to write poems.  

    No. 

    Most anyone can do that. 

    Most anyone has done that, 

    for school, maybe. 

    To be a poet is to see a tree  

  • The Skeleton Manor

    I used to think that I was secretly a princess. That I had been snatched away by some cruel force, dropped into the existence of a normal 21st century girl. Every day on my way to school I would pass the abandoned manor on the corner.

  • Dawn to Dusk

    Light is lobbed to the leaves and they cradle it 

    In the evening they throw it back to the sun 

    whose tendrils collect it 

    then go home