National Women's Month: Alicia Winski's poem "untitled"

memory is vile and intrusive

I watched him get out of the car

something about the way he was moving…

for a moment, I loved him

until he stopped moving

we went inside

and I let him make love to me anyway

sometimes I feel suffocated

tucked under a New York deep freeze with you

choked out on ashes and frozen leaves of grass

but every once in a while

I like to get out and remember

what it feels like to breathe

© 2017 Alicia Winski

Bio: Editor for NightWing Publications and Author Alicia Winski, of Seattle, was born and raised in Southern CA.  Having lived many of her formative years in several beach areas such as Venice, Playa del Rey and Malibu, California, she developed an early affinity for water and often incorporates that affinity, along with her love of music and color, into much of her writing.

Her work has been featured in numerous publications,  including Twizted Tungz, Jan 2013, Vol 4 Marbella Marbella Adelante!, (Spain) Dec 2012, The Shwilby.com, Twizted Tungz, Vol. 3, Neon Highway Poetry Magazine, Issue 23, Requiem Magazine, Edition 6, The Right Eyed Deer, 5th Edition, Edgar Allan Poet, Real Change.org, Cliterature Journal, Rolling  Thunder Press, Ygdrasil, A Journal Of The Poetic Arts, RezFez and Poetic Diversity. Her first poetry collection, "Running On Fumes", was published in early 2010, with a second collection entitled "Dreaming In Color",  and a third collection, "of dreams & mortality", set for release sometime in 2017.