Sour Breath

Holding the moon over crushed ice, I bite my tongue to avoid your vanities and you wrap yours around my … More

berries

fingers bloodied with fruit flesh, she echoes my name from across the curb. something about “found a really good one … More

Painting Emotions On You

I like to think you’d be proud of who I’ve become, of my stubborn passion and hyper-fixed ambition. I tell … More

Blue Hydrangeas

Rerouted apologies and and misplaced blame suffocate survivors until showers burn like flames.  

remembering remembering, or trying to

This place is freezing, and I don’t know if it’s the lack of your presence or the AC set to … More

salted ocean, salted skies

it’s my first time back in these waters since you died and the sky has yet to clear. Sanibel skies … More

In 5 Years’ Time

60 months. 262 weeks. 1,821 days. 43,701 hours. Has it actually been five years since I last saw you, since … More

Rewrite The Written

They say I have your words your state of mind and your empathetic demeanor. They say I carry you and … More

*You’re

I almost wish we’d never met. You stole six months from me, only half of which filled with naive apprehension … More

I Only Told The Moon

I feel scared and alone. Now, I know I am not actually alone; I have loving support just a call … More

Did You Ever Plan On Telling Me?

You were sending me “I love you” as your lips were on her neck.

Illusionary Hopes

I need to let go of the illusion that it could have been any different. Any of it, really. I … More

The Way They Leave Tells You Everything.

I shouldn’t be laying on my bedroom floor in my now dried towel at 3 A.M. after my 4th shower … More

Promises

I’ve never known a promise that wasn’t broken so don’t promise me this isn’t the end when all that’ll do … More

Flicker

Just a little flame quick to burn out just a little something to keep you warm between bodies is that … More

Scintilla

And the worst part is, it was never even fully real to begin with. Was it? It was a rendezvous … More

I Met Evil When I Was Only A Child

I met evil when I was only a child. It stepped onto my doorstep in late February. Evil drove as … More

The Last Six Months, Sonicallly

Someone New // Banks Hard Feelings/Loveless // Lorde Supercut // Lorde You Should Talk // Fletcher Sad Beautiful Tragic // … More

Where Are You?

I promised I’d always find you but you’ve stolen the sun and now I’m lost.

You’re Going To Live Forever In Me

1,461 nights ago, your heart stopped in your chest and starting beating alongside mine. Your soul left your body and … More

Saudade

4 years ago today I was told you wouldn’t make it. 4 years ago today I didn’t think I would … More

I’m Freezing Over

I don’t understand how you can claim to love someone still so deeply yet feed them icy silence, ignoring their … More

Bonfire Heart

I was aimlessly flipping through my journals aged three years, only to see a letter I had begun to write … More

I Wrote This For You

I am writing this for you. The you who knows me through and through, despite what you may believe, anymore. … More

Everything I’ve Loved Became Everything I’ve Lost

I have a bad habit of not realizing what I have until I let it go and this time that … More

I Used To Hold Those Eyes In Mine

I am terrified I will see you look at her the way you used to look at me and I … More

The Paradox Of Unhealing

What do you do when a wound was never given time to heal? It’s been left untreated for months continuously … More

Remember

“Remember this.” my mind muttered to me “Remember how it feels to lay next to her, to feel her beating … More

An Eclipse

With you no longer here, no longer in my arms or even the same country, the light has dimmed. You are … More

Mother’s Day, Once More

Sitting here in my room missing you, again. Although, it’s not a sad feeling. It’s one of appreciation and longing. … More

Denouement

I understand if we must let things go but please please do not forget the beauty we held for those … More

188 Memories And Photographs

I deleted all of our pictures yesterday.  It was like deleting memories Smiles Laughter The times you still loved me. … More

I’m Still Learning

Somewhere in the fall, I lost the map to the personal universe behind my green grey eyes. My head is spinning … More

I Will Not Lie

I will not lie. I still miss him. I miss the way he’d pull me in, causing me to fall … More

I Made A Playlist Instead Of Writing (Because There Aren’t Words For How This Feels. Just Sounds.)

I Gave You All // Mumford And Sons Nicotine // Panic! At The Disco All Too Well // Taylor Swift … More

It’s Never You

I never could take my eyes off you. Now, I find myself looking to every opening door and hoping it’s … More

Holding Hands With Your Skeleton

I see now that I kept holding onto a love that had died long ago.

Enthusiasm

Lately, I’ve been faking happiness acting like I’m okay when in actuality, all of my bones are shattered into dust … More

Conundrum

I don’t know if I’m drowning in conundrums  or I’m making a tsunami out of a drought.   https://dailypost.wordpress.com/2016/12/14/conundrum/

Sugar Coating The Bullet

When you told me you still wanted to be in my life, I couldn’t read my own thoughts. I felt … More

You Took Everything Except Me

I don’t know what to say. Not anymore. How am I supposed to write when you took my words with … More

Broken Record

“I love you.” “I love you too.” From the very beginning, there was something there. We nurtured it and watched … More

I Wear My Heart Around My Neck

I wear my heart around my neck, now. It was covered by my sleeve and caged within my ribs. Here, … More

Disintegrate

sometimes things just d   w   i  n   d   l   e d o w n to nothing. you can just feel disintegrating in … More

Deconstructed

You took me apart piece by piece. Separated each fragment of my body and my soul and laid me along … More

Fading Flashbacks

There are days, weeks even that I swear I am okay. All is okay until I hear a laugh that … More

Posting On Your Facebook

Sometimes I think about how you have never seen my blog. You’ve never read any of my work in the … More

Mother’s Day

It’s your day, Mom.  I remember our last Mother’s Day. I put together a beautiful little fruit plate in the … More

Moon//Stars//Sun

We used to be like the stars and the moon; constantly together, always to be found in one another’s arms. … More

Diners

The first time I saw him, he was digging ketchup out of a bottle with a knife. He was in … More