Posted by: Gia Portfolio on: February 22, 2012
Startled to see Charcoal-rimmed eyes staring back at me from my reflection in coffee Black. You sit ashing your cigarette on gray stones of patio We laugh about time, circumstance. You look at me I look down at new stiletto boots Boots I wouldn’t think of buying before now. Now, when I’m to act sophisticated, [...]
Posted by: Gia Portfolio on: February 14, 2012
Posted by: Gia Portfolio on: December 21, 2011
As the ghosts of January are approaching Sorrow holds my head in my hands. Even the light pouring through the window leaks with grief. Beside my gaze, he sits polishing the piano keys of yesterday. [...]
Posted by: Gia Portfolio on: December 2, 2011
I like giving people nicknames, and I list everyone under theirs (given by me) in my phone. If you don’t have a unique name, how am I supposed to remember which, say, “Alex” you are? Yes, I could use your last name, but that’s boring. People need more individual labels. Nicknames that other people have [...]
Posted by: Gia Portfolio on: October 20, 2011
Ever since I started having regular s-e-x again, it’s like men can smell it on me or something. Not literally!—I always shower before leaving the house—but something, something is definitely going on. I don’t think I look, act, or dress any differently than I always have, but men are all over me. From my block to [...]
Posted by: Gia Portfolio on: September 21, 2011
When speaking of a certain ex and why I broke up with him, I always say, “He was a dreamer and not a do-er.” What I mean by that—and I’ve known a few other men like this in my life—is that though he was brilliant and had many interests, he never materialized all of his wealth [...]
Posted by: Gia Portfolio on: July 24, 2011
Where will I venture forth without my love? Her ghost haunts my closed eyes. She spreads her fingers wide in my mind like a dove. My ears long again to touch her sweet lies. The waves of her hair crash into my skin. Her face is painted with the brush of infinite light. The softness [...]
