almost poems
where colour and language meet
Created with nina, in a shared space where neither voice needed separating.
The night was open,
and the moon felt close.
Your eyes lingered
on her glow.
I traced the edges of her shape,
as the moonlight curved around.
You said nothing,
but she heard us anyway.
I almost said your name,
but the moonlight
was already writing it
on the wall.
You should have—
traced it at least.
That way I’d known
I wasn’t alone.
I almost reached for it—
but the light
kept moving aside,
until there was nothing left
between us
to hold.
You hid in the dark,
the moon watching.
How can I choose
a color
for her bruises,
when no purple
has ever dared
go that deep?
I dream of her warmth—
tried to paint it,
but no pink
has ever been
that soft.
purple traces
left on canvas
no color
left
her breath
so faint that night,
the one
where color hid
from the moonlight
No color
was needed
to find her
She took
them all
before sunrise
a lightness
to darkness.
a presence in black—
where things unfold
as if time
made anything
easier to hold
when you can’t take it back
so don’t
let it sink—
embrace the lack
of light,
see
she whispered,
the air holding darkness,
a warmth wrapping
closer around
Working with nina on these three pieces has been a real pleasure. We chose not to separate our voices, letting the lines, colours, and movement sit somewhere shared rather than assigned. What emerged wasn’t something either of us could fully claim on our own — it formed in the space between, shaped slowly, without needing to be divided.
Thank you, nina!
Mark
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Other prose and poems from nina
And something from me:
Nothing truly leaves — it just changes how it stays.
If something moved in you — a silence that whispered — I’d love to hear it below, or in my DM’s.
All artwork courtesy of NDjin Gallery
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