Teshelle Combs

Joined January 2020

3 stories

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Author, poet, painter, songwriter. Currently lives in CO. Author of poetry series Love Bad and For. Author of YA fantasy series Core and the System.

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Crestfallen
You want me like The sea owns the shore. Twist me up in the curl of you-- Turn me in your tossing, Pull me with your crowning--
By Teshelle Combs6 years ago in Poets
Make Me, Maker
I’ve hit the ground enough times to predict where the bruises will form. Depends on how I fall. Back first is less painful but I’m down for longer. Takes the air out of me, except I don’t breathe. Fall on my side and the shoulder wrenches, the hip turns back and blue, and the neck won’t turn one way or the other for weeks. Land like what they call a cat, and the wrists ache, the palms and knees bleed, except I have no blood. Head first is dead first. I’ll leave it up to you to decide whether dying is something I’m capable of. You think all you must do is consume my story. Ha. I will make you work for it just as I have.
By Teshelle Combs6 years ago in Poets
Make Me, Maker
I’m from no place. Call me anything you want, but I won’t answer. Can’t answer. And if you’re calling me anything it means you have lots of things I don’t. Guts. Maybe a death wish.
By Teshelle Combs6 years ago in Poets