How can you describe Swedish pancakes — thin and folded in a square stack — With lingenberries and maple syrup To the uninitiated? Sometimes when […]
Commit
When you commit to write every damn day stomach flu or not Fifteen hours of Fevers and head bowed in the toilet, uff da A […]
Thirty-three hundred
Thirty-three hundred Word count days are bliss wrapped In sweet exhaustion Diet Coke times three Too much caffeine but you know What they say, fuck […]
Some to Show
I approach it with a vegan leather notebook Hand-etched with a quote about magic Those who don’t believe in it Never find it And throw […]
Autumn
She’s wearing a Van Gogh sweatshirt Honey-colored hair, dyed Ripped jeans and I miss autumn With an all-at-once ache I am a summer-born summer-child But […]
All Together
I have it all together I think in seconds of bravado When I can point to the apps that track Books and breaths and runs […]
Three
There is power in three In one, the fit of her waist in my hand In two, our legs pressing on their bunk In three, […]
Sleep, Try Again Tomorrow
Wake up to an earful of NPR An hour-long alarm I don’t turn off I dream of a movie plot While they interview an actor […]
Don’t outrun the wind
It clicks and pounds and it comes out stunted Stunted, stunted Then too much, too fast, at once Slow down I can barely capture you […]
Red Goes With Everything
Red goes with everything Though I learned the hard way That it’s better to paint on your lips Than to smear on your wrists But […]