Maya Hanson Poems

I
want as much
charisma as you
have in the tip
...

I think I might ask too many questions

How I couldn't pick you out from the top of a ski slope but I found you so fast in a crowd
...

Reactants:
A milliliter of love,
maybe lust to taste,
a square of sweet,
...

hair in my face
couldn't keep me quiet
limits you had listed
couldn't keep me in the lines
...

Feeling everything like underwater air
when I can't understand why I need you

I paint seaweed tattoos as my breathing gets faster
...

There has to be a limiting factor,
a reason you won't settle

Maybe it's how fast I talk when I'm nervous or excited
...

People don't trust us, they put us in boxes,
they shake their heads when we tell them the truth
You're just a child, you don't know the world
even when we tell them
...

Maybe flying too close to the sun just had something to do with
needing the light,
chasing the dawn
...

I wish I could stop caring,
I don't know how you can't need me
but every door I knock on looks like yours so how can I enter them
...

If only I could stop counting down minutes
maybe I could stay here long enough
to make a mark, pull you in to fall
...