Flicker

Just a little flame quick to burn out just a little something to keep you warm between bodies is that …

Scintilla

And the worst part is, it was never even fully real to begin with. Was it? It was a rendezvous …

I Met Evil When I Was Only A Child

I met evil when I was only a child. It stepped onto my doorstep in late February. Evil drove as …

Before You

Others have sat in this seat before you. Some with the same name some with similar minds some with the …

Emotional Sensations

I can feel it. I can already feel it and I’m scared. I can feel the sun from your eyes …

Augie

Echoed footsteps on cold tile and sisterly giggles filling the murky summer air. “Augie slow down! Your legs are toooo …

Liquid Love

I have so much love within me so much luminous love and sometimes, I find it overflowing and spilling into …

Four Years, 224 Posts, And 57,288 Words Later

Here we are. It’s been four years since this little blog came into being. Four entire years of poetry, prose, …

Sweet Nothings

You call me sweet little nothings and each breath turns them into somethings. Your lips have the ability to melt …

Kairosclerosis

For the first time in my life, I am happy alone. I don’t yearn for someone, for somebody to hold …

Your Old Things, Take Them

I’ve got your stuff all pressed and boxed up, the dust collected atop and all. I don’t want this any …

Where Are You?

I promised I’d always find you but you’ve stolen the sun and now I’m lost.

You’re Going To Live Forever In Me

1,461 nights ago, your heart stopped in your chest and starting beating alongside mine. Your soul left your body and …

Saudade

4 years ago today I was told you wouldn’t make it. 4 years ago today I didn’t think I would …

I’m Freezing Over

I don’t understand how you can claim to love someone still so deeply yet feed them icy silence, ignoring their …

Bridges, Burning.

You stood there watching from afar as I writhed gasping for breath as my lungs filled with smoke from the …

Tangible Regret

I’m your tangible regret, aren’t I?  

Revival

There are journals and canvases scattered all over the floor left from my 2 AM song lyrics and watercolor ramblings …

Writer’s Decongestant

Now I know that this is not a time for us. There are too many miles separating and not enough …

Desiderium

I believe a person has multiple soulmates; one for each part of who they are. I wholeheartedly believe you were …

I Wrote This For You

I am writing this for you. The you who knows me through and through, despite what you may believe, anymore. …

Everything I’ve Loved Became Everything I’ve Lost

I have a bad habit of not realizing what I have until I let it go and this time that …

Nepenthe

Sitting in the passenger seat as you leaned over the middle console, serenading me between kisses, promising to share our …

Do You?

I want to ask what you think of me. I want to know your candid thoughts when you hear my …

I Used To Hold Those Eyes In Mine

I am terrified I will see you look at her the way you used to look at me and I …

The Paradox Of Unhealing

What do you do when a wound was never given time to heal? It’s been left untreated for months continuously …

Revisions

I deleted the pieces of myself I created for other people and replaced them instead with ones I thought people …

Your Name Echoes In My Mind

“You can’t have something as powerful as love and then name it.” I named it after you. 

Always Beside You

You will find me swimming in your mid afternoon coffee and gently staining your upper lip. I’m the string on …

We Both Know That’s Not What Happened.

It is one thing to tell your truth, it is another to create a whole new world in which I …

Remember

“Remember this.” my mind muttered to me “Remember how it feels to lay next to her, to feel her beating …

Homesick

Ever since you stepped off my doorstep and boarded the plane, I’ve found myself subconsciously wishing each one passing overhead is …

Overpass

Headlights passing passing passing Perched on the overhang of the overpass with you beside me. Arm wrapped gently around my …

Unsent, Unsaid

So much never said never spoken never sent never to be known. I still have so much left to say …

Precipice

Falling Falling Falling Falling Falling Falling Falling Falling Falling F a l l  i  n g off this precipice from …

Alphabet

A buried castle deems enchanted, fate gives her imagination. Jubilation keenly loops mystery, never omnipresent. Perhaps quaint red slippers tangle up …

Wildflower Words

And here my writing returns back to the oh-so-expected sense of romance the stereotypical and too often dull sense of …

Whale Song

And in my sinking heart there is a whale song. The blue whale sings his melodic hum waiting for harmonies …

Painted Veins

In this world I have known people to either be artists or to be art. You, my dear, seem to be the …

Drained

I want to write. I want to write something but I don’t know how anymore, it seems. I sit here …

Denouement

I understand if we must let things go but please please do not forget the beauty we held for those …

Lovingly

And with every ounce of her, she loved. Her eyes reflected light onto the world around her and watercolors danced …

Memories Are Often Sweeter Than The Present

I find myself holding onto memories far too tightly when reality has swept me by and changed far more than …

The Unsolvable Mess

Maybe you are chaotic. Maybe you don’t make sense and can’t be solved but that doesn’t mean you are any …

Your Last Poem

No. No, you know what? You don’t deserve to know my thoughts and the way you’ve been circling my mind. …

It Took Me 10 Years To Learn That

I was seven years old when my mother told me the brightest, most beautiful insects were the most venomous. I was seventeen …

Our Own Greek Tragedy

I thought we were the daughter of Apollo and son of Hephaestus. I now know I am the daughter of …

I’m Still Learning

Somewhere in the fall, I lost the map to the personal universe behind my green grey eyes. My head is spinning …

The Afterthought

It’s really interesting rather funny, actually how we found ourselves in the opposite position we imagined. In the beginning, you …

Stained

You always told me you were poisonous that in the end, you would end up with inky blood on your hands …