Anna Vera’s Poems

Into the captivity of your heart, We let our blue balloons depart; Into the twilight of the sky. Into the night. Where our shadows still fly. Three years later, too far from the sea, Having escaped, having broke free, No longer a lone poet, surrounded by boors, I felt a lone virgin, surrounded by whores. [...]

The children of the shadows stepped With pointed toes and daunted breath Across the shadows of the streams, Deep with death and melted dreams. We watched the lightning cross the sky The last heat of the last hard sigh, And let our feet fall to the stones. We drowned the chilling undertones, Escaped into the [...]

My stomach burns With the quaking tide, When you play with my toes, When you tickle my pride. Take me away To your far away land, Buried like dust In the prints of your hand, Where your smile doesn’t crack, And fade, Before the hours Draw into days. I lay in the bed Of a [...]