Escapril 2.26

16. Robin Egg Blue

We are the hex code of a robin egg
lagoon blue, twisting our towels wet
from the waist both ways— there it is
a maelstrom of freckles talking back
to every kiss i spend here in the summer

17. Catacombs

When they lower me one day—and one day
they will, I’ll wait for you at the edge of limbo
with the veil of dead drawn over my face. We’ll renew
our vows in the catacombs, love.

18. Someone’s Chat GTP History

Hey so what does it mean when my heart stammers
like a racket tail’s wings, our legs touching, he says my name
like a storm, is he into me or am I the hope of the world?

19. Insatiable

I am between the bracket of your legs
like this [ I ] an insatiable lexicon
the glossary of want, your mouth
in the foot notes, your face in the margin

20. Witches in spring

Did you see the flower moon
open like a pair of legs?
Somewhere, strawberries
are starting to germinate—
somewhere else I am
thinking of you, horny
as witches as spring.

21. Orchid Mantis

I am flower walking
like an ant, on the smooth
surface of your thigh. An orchid
mantis shape. My hands are hungry
like a mouth.

22. Eternal Sunshine (Cento) (Ari Album)

Sometimes, I just can’t believe you happened
There’s never gonna be an ordinary thing
Cause I know now, I’m safe and sound
I found a good boy, and he’s on my side

1. twilight zone
2. ordinary thing
3. warm
4. eternal sunshine

23. remember when you slammed me against the front door?

No one’s ever
turned me
like a whipping
top, the house
shifted its axis,
I thought
of Wheel of Time,
a thousand lives
for one spin.
You ate me out
forever.

24. Befriended myself

We had a lot in common.
My boy held me to the mirror
until we talked it out.
I told him I loved him.
But not my boy. Not him.

25. poison dart frog

I’m wearing your initials,
the bowl between my collarbones,
glinting like a warning.
Kiss yourself dead.

26. 2 truths and a lie

But you have to look.
This poem doesn’t confess anything
you don’t already know.
I like you in cyan maybe it’s teal?
Forgive me, for not kissing you
immediately. My lips were bleeding,
biting time and truth
like flesh
like fruit.

27. phone sex

Your voice liquid smooth
like a knuckle
rasping a door,
like silk lingerie
and too many buttons.
Those are my nips,
and that is my hip.
You can hear it
in my breath, I’m hung
on every word.

28. atmospheric river

sky-river
breaking of peaks,
this the tongue of god
licking my face clean.
i want to have coffee here
with your hand on the small
of my back, to shiver
but not from the cold.

29. foxglove

i love you like something
you shouldn’t touch

30. just getting started

the night leans
in like a breath,
there are ways
to steal it,
i know this.
i hold it close
to your neck.

safe.

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Aaaaaaand that has been Escapril for you, 30 love poems! Not all great, but not all bad. Some of these are bones for the poems I’m aimlessly adding to a manuscript that is yet to have any purpose.

Some of these inspired more dick poems for an upcoming anthology!

An endless thank you for those who followed along, and for those who inspired me the entire month of April. The biggest of all thank you’s to Instagram Jesus sonja ringo for all the prompts I used.

I have not yet posted the painting prompt, but that will be a cross-over Ekphrastic for both escapril and dickotomy. Once it’s perfect, it’ll be on Instagram.

Okay, bye y’all!!!
(I have not relentlessly edited this post, and idc if there are mistakes. I’m so sleepy rn).