Throwback Friday: Saturday Afternoon Poetry – Christine E. Ray

bare skin glides against my rough edges like warm sand you buff my contours smooth mouth tracing the trail of my vertebrae you become cartographer of my ridges and valleys before breathing electricity along my spine bold fingertips find the places I ache work me like clay patiently loosen the knots I have tied myself into until … Continue reading Throwback Friday: Saturday Afternoon Poetry – Christine E. Ray

After Hours: My Attic Room- Christine Ray

You and me in my attic bedroom in Somerville.  Green and tan striped wallpaper inexpertly hung on deeply slanted walls.  Futon on the floor, the smell of warm cedar, window fan lazily stirring the air.  Dust particles floating suspended in golden light that falls across the hardwood floor in a diagonal.  Your eyes the bluest I have … Continue reading After Hours: My Attic Room- Christine Ray

After Hours: Midnight Precedes-OldePunk/RamJet Poetry & Christine Ray/Brave and Reckless

Midnight precedes The dawning of you Shadows and peaches Lavender and spices Rare, honeyed tongue Sings rapture My soliloquy of you   Cool moonlight Carves your shadow Against stark walls But you are smooth whiskey Intoxicating to my parched soul Cedar and pine Warm earth against my skin   From earth it begins Aquiline movements … Continue reading After Hours: Midnight Precedes-OldePunk/RamJet Poetry & Christine Ray/Brave and Reckless

After Hours: Uncharted Night-Olde Punk (RamJet Poetry) & Christine Ray (Brave and Reckless)

burning water still marks the way home though that is not the path I travel today by uncharted night do I go motionless movement a note of fluidity diachronic changes in synchronic nuance the language we share is not known here a purpose in thought one million yesterdays caught twixt our toes on the shores … Continue reading After Hours: Uncharted Night-Olde Punk (RamJet Poetry) & Christine Ray (Brave and Reckless)