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Leather — Payton Hayes	My covered eyes see nothing through darkness but my other senses have heightened I hear every footstep crush softly over the carpeted floor beneath...	1 view Rate it
Implode — Payton Hayes	The melancholic, nostalgic feeling you get while watching her dance, it’s like you’ve stopped breathing and she’s carbon-monoxide, but you remember...	1 view Rate it
Husk — Payton Hayes	Like desert birds circling bones picked-clean, you keep hanging around here like I’ve got something to offer. Let me tell you, I’m all out of magic....	1 view Rate it
Gravity — Payton Hayes	You’ve got this aura, this soft magic about you that keeps me in orbit. I couldn’t walk away even if I wanted...	1 view Rate it
Body Count — Payton Hayes	Darling, I never asked you for your body count. And to be frank, I honestly don’t care. The number of lovers we shared our beds with is irrelevant,...	1 view Rate it
Again and Again — Payton Hayes	Again, I suck the cigarette. Again, I nurse the liquid fire. Again, again, again. I do these things again and again, for no other reason than this: ...	1 view Rate it
All or Nothing — Payton Hayes	I’m an all or nothing person; I always have been, I always will be. If I’m not challenged one way or another, I create my own. I’ll self-sabotage even...	1 view Rate it
Milk II — Payton Hayes	Between sips of espresso and difficult late-night conversation, I realized I like my coffee with milk and that Cancer hurts. It hurts those who have...	1 view Rate it
Moonsight — Payton Hayes	Day after day and night after night you watch the sun and stars swirl overhead. How many times must I remind you to not take for granted all that...	1 view Rate it
Mountain II — Payton Hayes	All my life, I thought I needed seas and mountains and bright city lights to be happy, to be satisfied. The truth is, all along, I just needed...	1 view Rate it
Old Soul — Payton Hayes	soul, old as time composed of stardust and fine lines mortal frame a sad attempt to capture you lovely hair and little bones and eyelashes...	1 view Rate it
Set Me On Fire — Payton Hayes	Set me on fire. My body will be the kindling, my soul will be the flame. How could you not know that you’d be the oxygen, for fire or flesh, I...	1 view Rate it
Sliced Bread — Payton Hayes	You used to look at me like I was the greatest thing since sliced bread. Now, you look at me like I am sliced bread and you're...	1 view Rate it
Veiled — Payton Hayes	Silver rings upon your fingers fingers trace my collarbone silver’s soft, but gold lingers. It reminds me of our home. Where fleeting moonlight...	1 view Rate it
Velvet Moon — Payton Hayes	Velvet moon rays cascading down caressing so softly, your skin, I could scream. Dressed in nothing but the moonlight, wrapped in folds of silk and...	1 view Rate it
Waves II — Payton Hayes	I can only compare him to waves, because no matter how many times, I push him away, he always pulls me back in. Again, and again, I am welcomed back...	1 view Rate it
Windshield — Payton Hayes	Glass plate, window to the road, the future, caked in red dust and baked in sunlight, showing nothing but blue skies ahead, I wish it had only...	1 view Rate it
2020 — Payton Hayes	“I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be destroyed by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the...	1 view Rate it
Birdseye — Payton Hayes	you walk down cracked pavement bird’s eye view past yellow taxis blue postal boxes and red phone booths details I could see from here ...	1 view Rate it
Catchlight — Payton Hayes	“When I think of my wife, I always think of her head. I picture cracking her lovely skull, unspooling her brains, trying to get answers. The primal...	1 view Rate it
Crescent — Payton Hayes	I was a waning crescent, pale and thin—incomplete a silver sliver of light peeking unwanted in between the folds of the velvet, midnight sky and...	1 view Rate it
Cursive — Payton Hayes	As you wrote my name in cursive with your tongue I saw explosions behind my eyelids, I heard a melody that was so blissfully new, yet familiar, I...	1 view Rate it
Mojave — Payton Hayes	Barren—they call you and now it is your badge of honor, one you wear proudly on display. They likened you to a desert for a lack of children and...	1 view Rate it
Moonflower — Payton Hayes	Night flower blossoming Beneath the summer sky Petal parasols unfurling Throughout June and July She was born under the moon Nocturnal butterfly ...	1 view Rate it
Whole II — Payton Hayes	Barnacled shipwrecks are beautiful in their sundered glory. Ivy-covered age-old walls are deemed charming and quaint. The moon is mystifying even with...	1 view Rate it