XO

I'm getting
anxious, anxious, anxious
I'm amping up
doing
more, more, more
I'm nervous
I'm building
waiting to
erupt
explode
move on,
or whatever.
Everything feels
tense
I edit my writing
over and over again.
I just can't imagine this not bursting,
spilling over,
and painting my body
red with relief.

5/2/2016
Riley Welch

3 Pretty Happy 3 Line Monday Thoughts

10:57 am
Oh jeez,
almost 11, totally drowsy
up, down, up, down.

3:04 pm
Day dreaming,
drifting,
sunny or cloudy. Fresh.

10:57 pm
How symmetrical,
chicken and tortillas,
salsa on top.

4/25/2016
Riley Welch

Yellow

Bursting pride
yellow lilies overlapped
petal, petal, petal,
do lilies even come in yellow?
I seem to have forgotten simple facts
things I learned
when i was little.
How you have some things, that are immediate knowledge?
Everyone knows cheetahs are quick, quick, quick.

4/21/2016
Riley Welch

White Space

And it felt violated
violated
am I bad?
Am I a bad person?
Do I hold bad intentions,
sitting restlessly in the palm of my hand?
But this seeping,
spilling
over
and out of me
I guess I should try and stop it.
When does 6 hit?
6 months.
Is that alright?
Appropriate?
Why do I find myself
debating
the appropriate
isn't most of it just up to me?
New division.
Not one more
once more,
once more.
Things get hard when your tongue twists over short letters
scribbled out
on a page.
Handwriting sinking,
worse and worse
edits, edits, edits,
if I don't finish them soon
no one else will.

4/4/2016
Riley Welch

4 Mildly Tired 4 Line Saturday Thoughts

8:37 am:
It feels
too early
to be awake
just yet.

11:45 am:
Saying goodbye -
even though being apart is normal
is sometimes sad
and sometimes hard.

6:01 pm:
Suddenly dizzy
and light-headed,
words come quick
and spilling.

8:23 pm:
Night came even
friends and laughs
and lots of fresh greens.
Full, happy, and sleepy.

1/30/2016
Riley Welch

Rushed

I wanted to climb as high as I could before it all got away from me.
If I didn't immediatly
look over every edge
I thought it would be much, much too late.
I am so,
so
small
in comparison to each mountain.
I could look out
and climb on
and I needed to
know
know
know
that,
before I continued.

4/3/2016
Riley Welch

18 Seconds

I think I forgot how to write
how to line up
all the letters I know
or at least
know how to use
which is probably only 23 or 24 out of all 26.

It's as though
when I was in an environment
without writing
and reading
I had to fill the space with my own words.
But now,
that I am surrounded
smothered
drowned in them.
I've lost my flow
that used to come
spilling
spilling
spilling out.

4/3/2016
Riley Welch