~bare~

sunshine

slowly cooling

I’m awake

but I feel like

I’m deep sleep

dreaming

I want to hold

onto

something real

this

Is me

with

my bare tree

exposed

my leaves

shaken off

along the way

really

see

The colors

hidden underneath

burning the

ground

the roots

need air

they curl

and unfurl

stay on

The moonlit side

your

not

there

but you are

excited

nervous

attention slides

over my

surface

too

many alone

busy people

around me

I’d rather light a candle

than curse the darkness

slow down, find the gap

the loveliness

of an ordinary moment

In the moment I’ll be with you

but it will be a different kind
the disease of the mind

is to set mind against mind


I break from the crowd
don’t tell me

I’m out of touch

with  your rampant chaos

your reality

treading

a line

it's just

discord

and rhyme

drinking

juices

and wine

you can’t

fight

the night

~Sarah Mahina Calvello~

electric

want to light it now

give it one more day

you told me that even sugar

melts in the rain

and it's just another

moonlight mile

down the road

when the sky is painted

in electric paint

colors are icy

sugar swirls

first

comes stress

then comes worry

to haunt me

close your eyes

the air

is alive

and the sky

is burning

and liquid

with all

the hidden colors

in the world

everything

is shimmering

running

into shadows

and corners

to no avail

time

to break

the chain

Make the most

of your

minutes
escape
the soft
lonliness

~Sarah Mahina Calvello~

~Start When You are~

It was a day

Where

Everything was gray

The trees

Looked

like they were melting

Running

Into each other

into each other

like liquid ink

wind

shook
the black leaves

everything smells

so good

like sandalwood

and salty dreams

like something new

just about

to start

where you can hear

water and wind

before you

you

leave me

in the

quiet

lost in thoughts  

and busyness

sometimes

I feel

like I’m losing myself

I'm excited

and a little nervous,

cautiously optimistic
I’d rather light a candle

than curse the darkness
slow down

there is a gap

between my thoughts

where there is still

a sense of wonder

hold onto that

because you can never

get it back

discover the loveliness

of an ordinary moment
you’ve been taken

from pillar to pillar

so that it’s almost bearable

the rosy advice you disperse

with pear shaped tones

because if you haven’t tried

you haven’t lived

I want you to get swept away

I want you to sing like the devil

and dance like a dervish

there is not an ounce of excitement,

a whisper of it thrill
time to

get it back

start where you are


~Sarah Mahina Calvello~

~Comma~

a comma goes

where you breathe
slow

white circles

in the shimmering

air

the hardest part about going forward

is not looking back

you know the thing about being lost?

you can be lost anywhere
the thing about rain

Is that the sun always goes through

for you it’s love

that can make you whole

or can unhinge you entirely

a red apple tastes like

it’s been boiled in water

for too long
now I realize

I was running away

from things

as much as I was running towards them

fantasy is shallow
from here to the moon and back,

who else is going to love you like that?
when you don’t fit into a box,

the answer isn’t trying to squeeze

tighter into the box

you build a bigger box.


The only way out is through
quiet

and crystalline
it had frozen into

an opaque stillness
the burning angels

have returned

there is the reason this is happening

it's like an alarm is going off

and you can't turn it off

you spoke a lot of words

I don’t know

If you spoke the truth

~Escape~

It had frozen

into an opaque stillness
The watercolor

Leaves

Stained glass

Feathers

Fall

Making

The world

Marbled

Fading into browns and greens

Winding

Onto

One another

In a ribboned

hug

Shiver

With a fading wind

And morning dew

When the time comes

Escape

Our breath

Mingles

And hangs

In the air

In silver

Spirals

Fading

Too soon

Too vague

And disappearing

Too soon

Like

Your words

If you want to see the forest

you have to look past the trees

Learn

to hope

Again

This stone

World

Quiet

And crystalline

Seemed defaced

And all that's left

Is shadows

And a glowing nothingness

~Sarah Mahina Calvello~