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Somewhere on a Highway

by Marisa Donnelly

Sometimes you’re moving forward. Sometimes you’re running in place. Sometimes you’re sprinting 90 miles an hour in what feels like the wrong direction. Sometimes you’re stuck. Sometimes you’re driving with the road spanning out in front of you in all its

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“You’re still the green-grey eyes, the laugh that warms me. You’re still the unbrushed hair. And I promise I’ll run my fingers through the tangles. Promise I’ll kiss every lonely strand, every broken follicle. Until you can taste the forever on my lips.”

— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc

Tagged: Somewhere On A Highway, Poetry, Missing You, Remembering, Remembering You

“I called you last night. Because I saw the picture, because I wanted to know if your voice still sounded like Saturday mornings with closed blinds, an old truck with the windows down on the highway in the sticky-hot Western sun. Yes, you did. Your voice brought me to all the places I’d been searchin…”

— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc

Tagged: Somewhere On A Highway, Poetry, Missing You, Remembering, Remembering You

“Saying goodbye was like inhaling oxygen like a knot wrapped around my ribs untying, loosening, releasing, opening, learning to breathe again.”

— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc

Tagged: Somewhere On A Highway, Poetry, Running, Leaving

“You leave because you don’t love him. You leave because you do.”

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Tagged: Somewhere On A Highway, Poetry, Running, Leaving, Love

“You leave because your heart will ache if you stay even if your bones will ache when you go.”

— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc

Tagged: Somewhere On A Highway, Poetry, Running, Leaving

“I can’t stop running from all the people I shouldn’t be running from.”

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Tagged: Somewhere On A Highway, Poetry, Running, Running Away

“Maybe we’ll always be connected across the expanse of space and sky, and when I lift my head from the pillow, you’ll feel my energy too. You’ll wonder why you’ve felt so restless ever since I left.”

— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc

Tagged: Somewhere On A Highway, Poetry, Remembering You, Remembering, Love

“Our connection is paper thin—or, like sutures, weaving through the sinews of my heart, stitching fragments of you to me, of me to you to your chest cavity, laying claim, filling those hollow spaces, making you whole so you won’t miss me, haven’t missed me since I’ve been gone.”

— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc

Tagged: Somewhere On A Highway, Poetry, Remembering You, Remembering, Love

“I wonder if you know I still think about you every time I drive the gravel backroad where we first kissed, electricity between us sparking white against that night sky like fireflies.”

— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc

Tagged: Somewhere On A Highway, Poetry, Remembering You, Remembering, Love

“you were the only man who made me believe even those born to run might learn to slow down.”

— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc

Tagged: Somewhere On A Highway, Poetry, Remembering You, Remembering, Love

“You will always remind me of late nights on I-35, Three Musketeers bars melting chocolate all over my fingers and you laughing, leaning in to kiss the sweetness from my lips.”

— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc

Tagged: Somewhere On A Highway, Poetry, Remembering You, Remembering, Love

“He made her the sun. But now he chases the moon, looking for the same light from a duller star.”

— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc

Tagged: Somewhere On A Highway, Poetry, Searching, Searching For Her, Moon And Stars

“Go. Run. Leave. For you were not born to stay still.”

— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc

Tagged: Somewhere On A Highway, Poetry, Searching, Don't Stay Still

“I’ve been smiling at temporary faces looking into temporary eyes kissing temporary lips touching temporary bodies searching for you.”

— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc

Tagged: Somewhere On A Highway, Poetry, Searching, Searching For You, Temporary

“We ache for the zing of a strawberry when we can no longer taste the seeds— like remembering you, bitter and beautiful on my tongue.”

— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc

Tagged: Somewhere On A Highway, Poetry, Searching, Searching For You, Temporary

“Sometimes I wonder if beginnings have endings or if endings are only beginnings of something else.”

— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc

Tagged: Somewhere On A Highway, Poetry, Searching, Temporary, Endings

“If I could give you my heart like an atlas, I’d let your fingers trace the highways, the veins that make the backroads, the creeks, pauses where you’ve taken my breath.”

— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc

Tagged: Somewhere On A Highway, Poetry, Love Poem, For You, heart

“If you are the wind, I am a dandelion seed, twisting spinning, caught in your embrace, traveling miles, seeing a sky I’d never dreamed.”

— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc

Tagged: Somewhere On A Highway, Poetry, Love, Love Poem, Wind

“I stayed in the street and stared into the expanse. A sky that promised new beginnings with every flickering star.”

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Tagged: Somewhere On A Highway, Poetry, I Am Found, found, Lost And Found

“But in all the white, the steady rhythm of heartbeat and bare soles on pavement, I am found.”

— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc

Tagged: Somewhere On A Highway, Poetry, I Am Found, found, Lost And Found