You taught me that the best conversations Happen while walking, while drinking Or while watching you cook From my perch on the kitchen counter You […]
Reasons
Let’s count them in the morning One, five, a thousand and nine Reasons The fan is too loud The skin is too dry When I […]
Hush
It’s all caged up Ferocious fear and Fanatical feeling Pressed against golden bars I put my palm against the lock Hush I sing it all […]
The Finish Line
The mirror — vertical, curved, mounted on the wall next to my bed — Showed me this — myself, fourteen, nearly fifteen Resolute, victorious, humbled […]
Paint Chips
Paint chips float in the bathwater With lavender sea salt And a splash of whiskey on the mat I sip it slowly, barely Warming up […]
Breathe Down
Calling me back, soon All those safeguards Against mindlessness I plant anchors For routine, and focus, And aspiration And I keep them But life comes […]
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 […]