Tricia Sankey

When I Found You…

you were a book, knocked clean off a nightstand – spine splayed out, words that gasped, and I read all your pages on the floor, by candlelight. Originally Published on One Sentence Poems here Photo Credit here

Caffeinated

new post on Conceited Crusade Your eyes, the color of coffee, sipped slowly, while reading, in the morning *you kissed me* too much caffeine doused with sugar – it wound me up, it makes me think, you still have no idea, of your power that bold strength. Photo Credit here

Ophelia Choking

I followed the concrete path with my face down and fists buried inside the cheap plastic pockets of an oversized raincoat. I’d walked that path a million times. But that day I noticed them all. Numerous small jagged cracks peered up to greet me, and my eyes followed their shadows slipping into the darkness justContinue reading “Ophelia Choking”

Depreciation

Shaking glass, counting down, clever words, cracked this way. We breathe in fragments, choking sounds: Follow me, around the bend- Find that corner, planes must pass- Steady eyes, over here, watch and see- this new trick. It’s gone you and I together *depreciated* like a penny, tossed in space – into a void, watch it now, spinning down, onto the ground, beside myContinue reading “Depreciation”

She needs the key.

Originally posted on Conceited Crusade:
She has been fractured for a long time. Not belonging to any one group of people or any one place. Instead, she’s been finding parts of herself in different places, splitting herself up and hiding the pieces inside boxes only she knows about like Horcruxes. Sometimes it’s her heart, sometimes…

Welcome!

Thanks for visiting! Stick around for some coffee and fun! Please also visit the following literary journals and anthologies where my work is published: OneSentencePoems Paragraph Planet 50-Word Stories Red Wolf Journal and MasticadoresUSA. My micropoetry has been published in the following print anthologies: Poetryin13 Volume 3 Poetryin13 Volume 4: The LossContinue reading “Welcome!”