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Airport Sunflower
As we walked briskly through One of the airports on one of our trips I spotted a guy with a sunflower tie It was definitely too much But...
Elizabeth Cotton
Jun 30, 20241 min read


I've told you about the flowers
And now you spend twenty dollars at Trader Joe’s every two weeks or so you examine the petals you create your own bouquet many are not up...
Elizabeth Cotton
Apr 15, 20241 min read


Happy Wife, Happy Life
You always tell the waiters At the end of our dates, If she’s happy I’m happy And each time it makes me Happy. At our early Valentine...
Elizabeth Cotton
Mar 25, 20241 min read


Meeting
By the time we met, I had already met you I thought to myself, I might marry you someday And I knew it was too late to push you away...
Elizabeth Cotton
Mar 16, 20241 min read


wedding dress
it is hard to imagine myself in a wedding dress I never could confident femininity a woman at her best a picture of perfection thin arms,...
Elizabeth Cotton
Mar 11, 20241 min read


The Bolter
In another life I dream of Idina of easy love and salacious scandals here we go again, I am Donna a fabulous aunt, single by choice But...
Elizabeth Cotton
Mar 7, 20241 min read


The Alchemy
Some say I changed you, maybe I did Some say you changed me, maybe you did but you can’t make something outta nothing deep in our...
Elizabeth Cotton
Mar 4, 20241 min read


the smallest man who ever lived
all you held those seven weeks were my hand and my attention then it was all over like a dream now you are an embarrassing lore of the...
Elizabeth Cotton
Mar 3, 20241 min read


I can do it with a broken heart
To Whom It May Concern, I am writing to apply for the open position of being your full time lover with benefits I come with glowing and...
Elizabeth Cotton
Mar 2, 20241 min read


loml
I love watching documentaries about cults and recommending them to other people I love receiving flattering words that assure me that I...
Elizabeth Cotton
Mar 1, 20241 min read


Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?
you fell down a rabbit hole and didn’t mean to but is there really a need to get your guards up after all, I’m just a girl; what could I...
Elizabeth Cotton
Feb 28, 20241 min read


Guilty as Sin?
You’ve barely been to church and lately, I have not either it’s stopped mattering as much just look at this fine weather But we still...
Elizabeth Cotton
Feb 27, 20241 min read


Soothing Star
I’m not sure I’ve seen a shooting star And what we have is what I would have wished But instead of the quick and fleeting Blink and then...
Elizabeth Cotton
Feb 22, 20241 min read


Down Bad
the lines I had to draw made a pentacle I cursed your name you called me a witch I was down bad as I had prophesied but not as down as...
Elizabeth Cotton
Feb 22, 20241 min read


In the Next Years
On New Year’s we clink glasses, the dozing kids’ Martinellis flat in theirs Hold out on their ages until they each finish a bowl of...
Elizabeth Cotton
Feb 6, 20241 min read


Jelly BeansÂ
We may have been sharper I was starting to get abs, you’d noticed But our shared time was too delicious Made us softer, squishier Gave us...
Elizabeth Cotton
Feb 1, 20241 min read


Uncertain Spring
It was an uncertain Spring And in just two weeks we went from Bits of pixel and soundbytes To walking hand in hand toward the beach, To a...
Elizabeth Cotton
Jan 31, 20241 min read


Rituals
I open the door easily because you remembered to unlock it It is dark as I take off my shoes and call out, yoo-hoo? You reply from the...
Elizabeth Cotton
Jan 30, 20241 min read


Road Trip
You said if we ever break up You would go on a road trip Get in the car and just drive Think about what went wrong So we talk about road...
Elizabeth Cotton
Jan 27, 20241 min read


Dream
I dreamt that you wrote about our life together and when I got to the ending I looked away I didn't want to spoil it.
Elizabeth Cotton
Jan 21, 20241 min read
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