julia alexander chipped tooth press 2015
you are as much truth as you are fantasy. i can bring a man to the edge and i can push him over, but i could never say he jumped. i will spend the rest of my days with you on my shoulders.
breaking, everything breaking, but the light comes through. the light is coming through.
how can i tell who is a friend when all i can see are open hands on bodies as cold as ice? i was brewed in the flame. i came to release smoke, i came to burn it down.
i think i’m at it again. i can’t imagine a life better than this one, but i’ll build it. i can’t imagine being higher than this, yet i am still climbing.
i created my own space here. i take what i can get my hands on. i take anything i can stuff into the pockets of my jeans. i take what i think will go unnoticed. when you get here, let me know. when you get this far running on fumes, let me know.
you get out what you put in mom whispers into a rosary and i’m putting more in than i ever thought i could phone call send to voicemail i get just as much. this life: salvation, my own garden of eden why is she still calling doesn’t she know i’m the holy one i have no brothers. there is no cain
chipped tooth press is a writing collective which seeks to instill a love of poetry in even the most relentless naysayers. we publish work that bares its teeth by artists who are willing to allow it to do so. chippedtoothpress.tumblr.com chippedtoothpress@gmail.com julia alexander is a part time poet and a full time crybaby. her first book of poetry The Dirt I Rise From came out in early 2015. julia started chipped tooth press and uses it as an excuse to meet and work on poetry projects with her friends. juliaalexanderpoetry.com juliaalexanderpoetry@gmail.com