2 Short Poems with no name and a Haiku

1

I loved him dirty
with every flaw in me
every crooked insecurity
I laid me bare
all my secrets
the parts of me that don’t price
in public shares
the corners not meant for company
or casual affairs
He loved me clean
the way liars do
gently kissing away
incriminating finger prints
cutting himself out of pictures
to be burned from remembrance
conspicuously absent
heartlessly clean

2

Night fell upon us
with an autumn swiftness,
the gray deepening, the rain pelting down
harder and faster
you would not be gentled
the wind whipping us
with fallen leaves and litter
you raged against it
against me



Haiku for Michelle

Michelle Obama
classy future first lady
wish you had a fro