Giving and Taking and Balancing and Falling

I’m tired of writing about the cataclysm of last year and how much I’ve grown since then. I’m tired of … More

Cleansing

I have been rinsing myself of everything the year left on me cleansing myself of the scars, the wounds, the … 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

Delicacy

This past year has easily been one of the most brutal years of my life. After losing myself and everyone … More

Personal Complexities

You know a version of me. The girl who wears that old Elvis Costello shirt or the first year who … 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

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

Before You

Others have sat in this seat before you. Some with the same name some with similar minds some with the … More

Emotional Sensations

I can feel it. I can already feel it and I’m scared. I can feel the sun from your eyes … More

Augie

Echoed footsteps on cold tile and sisterly giggles filling the murky summer air. “Augie slow down! Your legs are toooo … More

Liquid Love

I have so much love within me so much luminous love and sometimes, I find it overflowing and spilling into … More

Four Years, 224 Posts, And 57,288 Words Later

Here we are. It’s been four years since this little blog came into being. Four entire years of poetry, prose, … More

Sweet Nothings

You call me sweet little nothings and each breath turns them into somethings. Your lips have the ability to melt … More

Never Read

I have posts upon poems that will never see the light of day, not because they aren’t worthy but rather … More

Maybe Meant To Be, But Not To Last.

Our lives are full of turning points, and sometimes those turning points happen have two eyes and a name. Some … More

Kairosclerosis

For the first time in my life, I am happy alone. I don’t yearn for someone, for somebody to hold … More

Your Old Things, Take Them

I’ve got your stuff all pressed and boxed up, the dust collected atop and all. I don’t want this any … 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

Bridges, Burning.

You stood there watching from afar as I writhed gasping for breath as my lungs filled with smoke from the … More

Tangible Regret

I’m your tangible regret, aren’t I?  

Do You?

I want to ask what you think of me. I want to know your candid thoughts when you hear my … 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

Revisions

I deleted the pieces of myself I created for other people and replaced them instead with ones I thought people … More

Always Beside You

You will find me swimming in your mid afternoon coffee and gently staining your upper lip. I’m the string on … More

We Both Know That’s Not What Happened.

It is one thing to tell your truth, it is another to create a whole new world in which I … More

Remember

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

Homesick

Ever since you stepped off my doorstep and boarded the plane, I’ve found myself subconsciously wishing each one passing overhead is … 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

Overpass

Headlights passing passing passing Perched on the overhang of the overpass with you beside me. Arm wrapped gently around my … More

Unsent, Unsaid

So much never said never spoken never sent never to be known. I still have so much left to say … More

Alphabet

A buried castle deems enchanted, fate gives her imagination. Jubilation keenly loops mystery, never omnipresent. Perhaps quaint red slippers tangle up … More

Wildflower Words

And here my writing returns back to the oh-so-expected sense of romance the stereotypical and too often dull sense of … More

Astral

Between the gentle swinging of the hammock and the steady rhythm of your heart, that night became my favorite song. … More

Whale Song

And in my sinking heart there is a whale song. The blue whale sings his melodic hum waiting for harmonies … More

Painted Veins

In this world I have known people to either be artists or to be art. You, my dear, seem to be the … More

3 Years Later

I never expected people to care. It was never in my mind that individuals in 30 different countries would have … More

Denouement

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

Lovingly

And with every ounce of her, she loved. Her eyes reflected light onto the world around her and watercolors danced … More

Memories Are Often Sweeter Than The Present

I find myself holding onto memories far too tightly when reality has swept me by and changed far more than … More

Your Last Poem

No. No, you know what? You don’t deserve to know my thoughts and the way you’ve been circling my mind. … More

I Found Someone Better

I found myself. 

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