The food dye splashes over my counter And my skin, watercoloring my wrist Blending in with the red and blue of my tattoo Most of […]
Grass-Is-Greener
I wrote, I don’t want to grass-is-greener my whole life The next chapter, the next year I brush my fingers over the seams of futures […]
It Looks Like This
Here’s what it looks like Tennis shoes on gravel, then leaves, then dirt A break in the trees and there it is: wide, blue Sky […]
The Day After Perfect
The day after perfect Everything breaks at once The things at least A laptop screen, a taillight, a step-tracker But I tie a ribbon around […]
The Mountain
Picture it smaller, the world The sphere you can stretch your arms in The slick surface of limitations Pressed against your fingers You write it […]
At My Back
For my brother, on his 25th birthday Riding on the edge of the bike lanes Peddaling too fast To hear me yelling after him Be […]
Mother’s Day Haiku
The noblest love Through shopping trips, crying fits Mom always means Home
Contradictions
Here are the contradictions
Flitting from eye to eye in the bathroom mirror
Stare them down until they flutter
Until they inch back under my skin
Stare them down until another day
The contradictions flare again
In one version of forever
In one version of forever
Snow melts off my boots in the foyer
And my hair defrosts while
I towel muddy water off the floor
Rhyming for My Father
For my dad, on his birthday My dad taught me to write poems that rhyme So now I think of him every time And mark […]