Even spring days can feel like molassesChange your clothes three timesWhen nothing sits right on your skinSo try, try again It’s almost too coldTo throw […]
Vitamin-Deficient
I’ve been kind of vitamin-deficientUnless you count the gummiesTwo a day, pretend they fill out the food pyramidWhich isn’t a good model anywayAnother bit of […]
Complaining
Work eleven hoursMeditate: nineteen minutesCough yourself to sleep (I don’t have honeyIn the house and I don’t likehoney in my mouth) But the WiFi’s backAnd […]
April Showers
If my heart looked like my window panes todayIt’d be battered with sleet and snowA season over, then back againA moment of calm, then there’s […]
D&D with a Cold
Scratchy throat DM But the story must go on Salt Marsh, here we come With Love, Natalie
2 Days Into College
Late to the party again, but I’ve had this song stuck in my head the last few days: “2 Days Into College” by Aimee Carty. […]
Subliminal Spaces in Flight
Slip into the subliminal spaceHair over my eyesNeck shuddering forwardThen backNo place to lie downSo I driftIn and out of a long storyIn and out […]
Summer Games
Black and white hopes Like balloons on a carnival board Throw your darts, waste your tickets Trust in luck to beat a game born rigged […]
Inopportune
It sets in slowlyYou’re tired, but it does not fadeYour throat starts to itch The only thing worseThen inopportune illness:Being away from home In the […]
Consolation Prize
I get on a plane. I travel across the States. Then, I win at darts. With Love,Natalie