a sigh
upon my thigh
i wonder
and i wait
i can be her
that girl you wanted
i could but
it'd be so much work
and even more
lies
a sigh
upon my thigh
i reach down
my hand in your hair
and as i glance down
over belly and breast
i want to tell you things
i am so pretty and perfect
in my ability to
be ugly and contorted
a sigh
up on my thigh
and we are one
but you do not exist
you ached for
you are longed for
but you are not
anymore
or ever
About Me
- Janice Brabaw
- New York, New York
- Janice Brabaw is the author of Universe, Disturbed, her first collection of poetry that draws directly from her teenage and college journals when she suffered from debilitating depression. She is also the author of And Again: A Memoir of a Life Disordered which chronicles her struggles with depression and borderline personality disorder. And Again is slated to be released in 2009 and Universe, Disturbed is currently in it's second edition. Janice Brabaw lives in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. She runs the literary & musical series, Stained Glass Confessional in Brooklyn and has read at The Bowery Poetry Club, Otto's Shrunken Head, The Cake Shop, and the Library Lounge series at Telephone Bar. Her work has appeared in Poesis, The Toronto Quarterly, Ophelia Street, The Record, and the Cartier Street Review. More information about Janice can be found at www.JaniceBrabaw.com
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