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I went to bed last night trying not to think about you but I woke up with your laugh ringing in my ears and your smell on my pillow. You haunt me in my dreams, I am sorry I tried to forget you.... - Poetry > Free VerseWould you love me a little less if these bruises didn’t bloom so easily like purple roses under your palms? Sometimes I think you just like knowing how deeply you could stain me if you really wanted to....
- Poetry > Free VerseI need a new alphabet, one made out of slamming doors, screeching tires peeling off into the night, and beer bottles smashing against pavement. You’re still waiting for me to tell you what you want to hear, but my tongue is tied. I have never been the kind of girl who knows exactly w...
- Poetry > Free VerseOur hearts collided at dangerous speeds and mine was the only one that shattered. The only science that could explain this is that my heart was hurtling through space, reckless and blind, desperately searching for someone to revolve around, and your heart was just floating along like a l...
- Poetry > Free VerseI have always wished I was more mysterious and demure, but my face is an open book and I laugh too loud to be pretty. Every emotion I live moves across my features like a portrait in motion. You can count every heartbreak I’ve had by the scars they all leave. I think I am too alive...
- Poetry > Free VerseYou held your secrets down under your tongue when you kissed me, and they left such a smoky taste that I thought my mouth was full of ash. I still wonder about the girl who set fire to your lungs and left you coughing up tar....
- Poetry > Free VerseYou look at me with glass eyes – They are hard marbles, crystalline and cold I stand wanting and inadequate....
- Poetry > Free VerseThere is a constellation in your cinnamon freckles. Your cheeks are tainted by the blush that blossoms when you know you are being studied until you look up to find you are alone and the warmth returns to that pulsing chamber where it is extinguished and reborn. Perhaps the faintest melodies...
- Poetry > Free VerseThere will come a day when the light will find you and you will sigh no more. I will be there in the fields of heaven, gathering fistfuls of lavender for safekeeping. Come find me. I will wait....
- Poetry > Free VerseI have dreamt of polluted bodies pushed out of their cocoons and slumped silent over stillborn tombs....
- Poetry > Free VerseIt is not so much the setting of the sun or the promise of its return that quiets my insecurities once night falls. No, it is the glowing moon suspended in its forgiving brilliance. Thank god the stars don’t judge us for what we do beneath them, thank god they do not see the evil we commit und...
- Nonfiction > MemoirBEFORE The girl stopped. Dazed, she ran a hand through her ash-blonde extensions and squinted up at the sun. A loud, frustrated wail erupted from her lips and her pudgy, orange hands balled into fists. Huffing, the girl shuffled forward and immediately fell face-first into the sand. Her tanned fr...
- Poetry > Free VerseHer breath came quick and her lungs pulled in sharp gasps of frigid air that seemed to to crack and splinter the cage of her ribs. She did not know what she was running from, nor where she would find herself, but the pounding of her heart pumping blood past her ears was louder than rhyme o...
- Poetry > Free VerseYour memory brings to mind flurries of fine particles sent into morning light and shimmering curtains of dust motes disturbed by my presence....
- Poetry > Free VerseIt must have seemed very strange to you when you tried to cup the moonlight in your palms only to find that the silver rays simply filtered through your fingers and cast their radiance into the all the darkest corners where the heavy sighs and heartaches waited....
- Poetry > Free VerseSometimes I think the universe must lie in every direction. Sometimes I think I am only waiting for it to wash away this black and white vision of mine and fill in the empty spaces. I want to explode into a million hues and stain the world with the violent intensity of my youth. I want to sa...
- Poetry > Free VerseJust as it unfolded its wings to take flight, I reached out and smashed it, quieting its highest aspirations with the tender mercy of my palm....
- Poetry > Free VerseShe began to sway. Lost in the music, she twirled, trailing ribbons of light in the air after her – they were filaments of her love, quiet and iridescent....
- Poetry > Free VerseThe sails snap and billow on the same wind that blows my hair into my eyes and steals the apology from my lips. I wish to be pure and moon-driven like the tide, who washes its kisses on distant shores no matter how many times it is pushed away....
- Poetry > Free VerseIt’s the spaces left behind. It’s the quiet parts, and this dark, empty stretch of sky. It’s the climb, it’s the fall, the questions we don’t ask, it’s the morning. It’s the reason. It’s the truth. It’s this burning, white-hot fire, this lump of yesterday in my throat th...
- Poetry > Free VerseFall is here. The leaves are changing. My breath lingers in white puffs before dissipating into crisp October, this jacket I keep wearing every day is too thin so the wind blows right through me and I am thinking of you. My lips are chapped and my nose runs. Time runs, always moving, one ...
- Poetry > Free VerseEarly mornings, my father drove home from the hospital, through fog’s austere and unforgiving grey, with Duty draped carefully beside him and Caution prostrate in the back. Chasing the chronic influences of lethargy and splintering fatigue from his heavy lids, who else would brave the crests ...
- Poetry > Free VerseYou took me by surprise with your glass marble eyes. curly-cue tendrils and chubby dough fingers, blueberry kisses from red raspberry lips, sugar diamond tears for all of your fears, mashed peas and carrots, and apple dumpling cheeks, sweet baby’s breath whispers and beddy-bye whimpers tic...
- Poetry > Free VerseThat night, when you left? I went home and pulled out one of my mother's old vinyls. It was a little scratchy, but I played it, as the world spun slowly, in the dark. I grew old and wise lying there. I was a lady who knew the blues. That night? I was Billie Holiday, faraway eyes and dying li...
- Poetry > Free VerseI know you need it, but you don’t deserve it if you can’t remember why this is worth it. When did I stop being enough? Funny. I thought we were in love. Can you even see the sky is blue? Let me clean your glasses for you. You say you’re cool, but you’re not seeing clearly if you can...
