Stories of the future

In a new love, it's easy to live for the moment because there is no past. The more past you accumulate, the harder it is not to live there — and that's true whether it's good or bad.

—Terri Guillemets

Skinnydippin' in ink

Come voyeur my poems
Feel free, I feel free.

—Terri Guillemets

Marriage dates involve vacuums

It's all in the attitude — housework is exercise. Slim your way to a clean home, clean your way to a slim body!

—Terri Guillemets

Bravery or fear

Perhaps apathy is a wave of emotions too afraid to burst out of the darkness into the bright light of day.

—Terri Guillemets

INFj autopsy

The autopsy will find coloured flowers in my grey matter, still-beating poetry in my heart, unspent ink in every organ, blood saturated with love, bones mineral'd by life's rough days, muscles fibered by courage and fear intertwined, and a slightly crushed but glittering soul.

—Terri Guillemets

Enough already

I'm hyper-self-aware—
yes! also, self-wary,
too much self-wear;
questioning, self-where?

—Terri Guillemets

Lust & creativity

Poetry is the energy of the soul made ink.

—Terri Guillemets