Mornings and Half Empty Beds

I sleep diagonally now. I take up as much room as possible in this bed. It’s the best part of sleeping alone…

The Difference Between Sparks and Bombs

The first time I saw you, I swore I would have you.
I imagined your lips making their…

We believed

(Americana)

We grew up believing
In the US News and World Report
In bread that wasn’t colored with…

The Day After

the day after you
drunk-text me
and i don’t answer
there comes another day
there always does
i don’t think about how you spend yours…

On Lovers Lost

and moving forward.

Like an oasis

Like an oasis
New york
City
Stands
Shimmering
Below
Clouds of billowing
Beauty
Refined
Stately
Statuesque
Against the variegated landscape
Birds float
Then glide in the foreground
Factories feel the passage of time
I’m heading back to where time
Is no object
Just a necessary axis
On the complex graph
Of…

Dear _____,

I already know you’re nothing. Nothing I imagined you to be when our mouths laughed together. Nothing I cared about — the man-boy…

frag-ile (adj): (of an object) easily broken or damaged

Like a lame-legged girl

Like a lame-legged girl
At a rest-stop restaurant
Lost to the world
At large
Largely ignored
With big eyes
And a bigger soul
From the inside looking out
Hoping for a miracle
That never came
Because the miracles we wait for
And the ones we get
Are never one and the same