I always knew I would hurt youI could feel it in my hungry heartthat yours was too full…
You counted every blossom
someday againyou will subsist on love aloneyou will spread it soft like butter on toastit…
Put your hand over my heartso you can feel the placewhere my pulse originatesThis is where…
The glass slips between my fingers,tumbling exactly one and one-half times…
Something changes seen and unseen,the darkness quickens within and without,
Trace poetry in patterns on my skin — words you murmur, constellations named. I…
Jump into the river!Jump!Don’t you get it? You must!
There was a time when I was your everything. When the sun rises from my smiles and…
Binge eating my wayThrough breakup, heartache, loss, griefIt is not working.
Populace grows fearful and anxiousIn these unstable and turbulent timesSeeking ways of calming themselves,Fearful of this still…
She calls me ‘my girl’ — her girlher babyThe lone daughter, or as she’d say, my favorite…
I was so blind.I couldn’t see;
She cared for himfor twenty-five years,bearing his weight,moving his legs, up…
They made a masterful sculpture of us
Sometimes when I sleep
I have starved
From shame.
Fantasies aren’t premonitions, no matter how hard you praySo why were you the lucky one?He was so…
Poetry Sunday
I keep waitingwaitingfor the storm to pass
I Wish . . .
I met a boy:He was the kinmy soul searched for