Tag: hair

• hair

  I’m not sure I should have done it, the hair I cut last night. It was mine I’m pretty sure, so, I probably should like it. Now it’s in the trash buried under coffee grounds and is good as forgotten, my bald scalp a reminder that beauty fades, as they say, though if I were […]

  Chris Russell

  June 10, 2022

  Free Verse Poetry

  Autobiographical poems, hair

• Hair

  Do I realize I’m cutting all my hair off? Do I realize I’m trying to make myself look cleaner because I need to believe I can be? Sure, I do. But when I walk out of the barber shop the atmosphere of the street feels as empty as my head does, and there is nothing […]

  Chris Russell

  October 17, 2021

  Free Verse Poetry

  Autobiographical poems, barber shop, hair

• Beach House

  You weren’t right. I knew how to have fun, You just didn’t inspire me. That pear soap we loved was beautiful, because you didn’t need to eat it in order to taste it. Maybe I didn’t spend long enough standing behind you in the bathroom and brushing your hair. Maybe I didn’t tell you that […]

  Chris Russell

  October 17, 2021

  Free Verse Poetry

  Address poems, bathroom, beach house, blouse, hair, Illness/mental health poems, ocean, pear, sky, Soap

• Stone

  When I think about what it would be like to finally find that face under the mask and never have to wear another one, I feel happy. Except that’s not the kind of me I want to be. The kind of me I want to be can be like water so, no matter what I […]

  Chris Russell

  October 17, 2021

  Free Verse Poetry

  Autobiographical poems, banks, hair, Illness/mental health poems, mask, pot, rockslide, roots, stone, water

• Bases

  This morning there’s a lot of poem stealers rounding the bases. Everything seems to be getting in the way of my writing this one. Well, not really everything, but a few things feel like everything right now. Such is the case with feeling overwhelmingly interrupted, I suppose. Spotify keeps cutting out repeatedly, and every time […]

  Chris Russell

  May 18, 2021

  Free Verse Poetry

  Autobiographical poems, bases, basin, cricket, cucumber, cup, demon, dishes, fog, hair, Illness/mental health poems, jar, kitchen, mirror, mists, pancake, refrigerator, screen, sink, socks, sticky notes, train, wave, writer’s block poems