Excerpts for Now.

Standing Still

Sometimes when you have finally loosened the knots of hatred and hurt just enough to wedge your chafed still beloved ankles and…

Lessons of Summer (25)

A one-line story

Choose, I learned, and the world will assemble.

To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before

Thank u, next

Cigarette Burns.

I lit my first cigarette at 17
Back lit by a Swiss playground
Inhaled to quell the boredom.
The lighter flickered in the damp…

The Quarter Life Crisis

(Disclaimer: Relatable only to Gen Y and later generations)

Lessons of Summer

There was a summer time
And a summer mind
Where love and art
Became strongly entwined

20 Snippets from a Forever.

The Before.

One.

We’re creating a monument from beer cans. Erected by the pity party we’re throwing for ourselves; our words getting looser the longer we drink and daylight turns into night as our broken hearts unite…

When We were Young

I anchored myself to a love
I wanted to last forever

Twenty Four

you are 24 and burdened
with having to worry
about every step.