infinity everywhere

09.03.2024. flash poem

i guess i’ve been chasing art and love and life
in all kinds of wrong and right places,
in search of something that scares me — 
actually being seen.

i’m not used to…

09.11.2024. flash poem

i’m not used to relying on people,
but i’ve come to rely on your presence.

i’m not used to people knowing everything about me,
but you seem to have found out everything.

hey

09.08.2024. flash poem

i’ve been listening to chasing cars
while lying in the park by my apartment,
watching the planes go past.

it’s hard for me to talk about you to friends
in a way that really captures you,
so i…

the specificities of you

09.19.2024. flash poem

the case of us,
is that the way we have come to know one another
is as unique as the way we communicate.

all of it, for the rest of my life

09.06.2024. flash poem

it’s almost 3 months
since i last saw you,
and that feels so wild
because i’ve been seeing you everywhere.

patience and faith

09.05.2024. flash poem

i’ve fallen for a number of scams in my day,
get something quick, shortcuts.
and while you can of course blame the scammer,
it is also good to take a harder look at yourself.

midnight poem

09.16.2024. flash poem

this is my first time staying awake until midnight
since leaving the psych hospital.
i’ve passed out around 9 pretty much every other night.
these psych meds… gotta adjust to them…

i picked my blister

09.03.2023. flash poem

i have a blood blister on my left foot;
it’s healing but still oozes a lot.
others have broken open and gone,
but this one that i picked has stayed.

cloudy new moon evening

09.02.2024. flash poem

sometimes my hair blows onto my glasses, 
and it gets hard to see much of anything, 
but i hear so many planes overhead 
that i can see enough to know 
we’re gonna all be seeing grey soon.

reading in the park

09.04.2024. flash poem

i started this book about habits.
i wasn’t getting into it
until it started talking about process
and how processes are usually more important
than outcomes or products.