They make us feel like heartbreak is normal, like abandonment is so normal that everyone has experienced it, or will.
Read MoreTHE FUNCTION OF FAMILY
in Misc
She threw the blinds open
Brightness spilling into the room we all shared
I yelled & she yelled back,
Bratty and rude
like a sister
BODIES DON'T FORGET
in Misc
There are worlds inside of us that only make sense when we remember how bad things used to be. We could go years, decades not remembering, but feeling a part of ourselves, not understanding it, feeling confused and lonely for it.
Read MoreNEW YEARS 2019
in New Years
I struggle for the words to wish you well without the words to tell you that you have everything you need to give it to yourself.
I’d like to cheer for you, but I see you clearly on the field, ready and in uniform, pleated skirt, jumping in time for your team.
CASTLES
they said we could be anything as they crashed their tax evasion into the high rise of our bank accounts.
they told us stories of the castles of our future, birthright to be better than they were.
HIM THREE
in Misc
I don’t not remember the self-inflicted nausea of my early twenties that I blamed on everyone but me.
Hardened sandbags strapped to my sides, fastened with T3 text messages that I sent 3 hours ago.
You never replied.
HIM ONE
in Misc
Child like romance crushing the kid in me. I held your angst, stacked stones on my mule back, aged as quickly as I was a teen.
Read MoreNEW YEARS 2018
in New Years
Hey.
Hey you.
I see you over there in the corner
Exhausted and gasping for breath
Wind smacked and back punched with all of the life out.
WARM HUSH
in Misc
Can you tell me what it's like
To be open
To crack open
To twist and rub your oil-coated insides until something turns you over?
BEDFORD
I didn’t believe them when they told me that Bedford was Soho now until I saw the verdant glow of the upscale grocery store looming above the corner that exhales the smoke notes of my twenties.
Read MoreBEST WISHES
in New Years
My real wish for you this holiday is to Be Well.
Read MoreA VISIT TO THE ZOO
in Misc
Hands out, clasped, tight.
Steel soft stranger leg jambed on mine.
Tips tickle tip toes
Tracing romance up my thighs
A hundred times, a hundred times.
ON FIRE
in Misc
The void in my stomach, in my heart, has edges that glow where flames once were.
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