Parchment Confidant
If I could keep love
As well as I keep secrets
Then maybe your ears would itch
Anytime I confided how much I love you
On thirsty patches of parchment
Held together with a broken spine,
And pages as loose as its lips.
- @rs.darko
Reese Darko is a Las Vegas based poet and storyteller. Using the page to navigate the many narratives of pain and healing, with a cadence that lets her story unravel as the emotion builds. Each line gives the reader another piece of herself to be left at the end with a collection of grief and love that reminds us of our vulnerable humanity.
If I could keep love
As well as I keep secrets
Then maybe your ears would itch
Anytime I confided how much I love you
On thirsty patches of parchment
Held together with a broken spine,
And pages as loose as its lips.
- @rs.darko
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