the nape of your neck

poetry

my hands
are a boat
which sets sail
along the coastline
of your skin tracing
the contours of
every grain of
sand holding fast
against the welling
and swelling of the sea
coming to safe harbor
at the nape of your neck.

8 thoughts on “the nape of your neck

  1. Roger Mugs's avatar

    just pictures… remember how we both joked that we’d never written a narrative poem in our lives?

    lately i’ve written nothing but…
    i can create no beautiful illustrations.
    i’m surrounded by ugly everyday and i miss the purdyness…

  2. Tucker J. Collins's avatar

    the reason i haven’t written much in the past week or more is because I just moved and I wasn’t sure how I felt

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