selkie skinless, I am tethered in your arms never whole never an equal kept here by your love for my fractioned self not all of me not...

diasporache I looked for my family, but I could only find one atrocity after another. we must be born casualties— early marriages &...

There’s an ache inside my chest There’s an ache inside my chest It tightens up, and gives no rest I gasp for air, there’s never enough...

You feel like home. Everything feels right with you vs when I’m alone. Comfort when I fall asleep by your side With you I never feel the...

Gnawing at my chest It cannot seem to rest The pounding of my heart Forced from its love, to part Even if it broke free The meet would...

Retina I capture an image in my mind and there's no way in hell I'll capture it with pen on paper, Crayola markers and the...

Bloodstream The wrong and right Battle again As the wrong races To win nothing.. Heads broken Eyes, knees, Elbows, shoulders You name it;...

“My Chapter” Closing old feelings is oh so hard, opening up to new ones is even scarier. I’m taking that step – a step towards me. I’ve...

Dahlias: the Art of Withering after Edward Peck’s Mingus’ Summertime III Worn petals rumpled linen sheets on my bed, scattered with...

Simmer I've played with matches long enough you'd think I knew better. Instead I grabbed a hold of you, and with enough force to eat an...

Orange Trees we sit under a pavilion in summer, and even the air is as lazy as we are. the fish in the pond flick their tails, idly,...

With Laurels in Her Hair My friend and I knock knees, tangled up on her couch, fingers intertwined, and I choose to love her. There’s a...

Popsicle I melt like a popsicle in the summer sun sweet and colorful in a watermelon swimsuit not the gangly preteen I wished to be, but...

Shades of Blue Summer started off teal and murky, like the water that makes up a lake. Then, pretty boy touched my hand and Tiffany blue...

Not My Father, Only in His Shoes he bobs his head to the curving of the road, watching ravenous tires eat into melting miles of asphalt....

“Closing Our Chapter” You shattered my heart more than the ones before. I thought I had felt love before but I was wrong. Getting lost in...

if it begins to hurt if nothing is hurting you and you are free, if the sun is shining and the car was given to you and the gasoline is...

“Closing Our Chapter” You shattered my heart more than the ones before. I thought I had felt love but I was wrong. Getting lost in the...

The Carrie Bradshaw Theory Carrie Bradshaw said women come to New York in search of “labels and love—” Why can’t they go any place in the...

The Day You Leave Me Dark spots bloom on my dress as the skies open the day you leave me. I reach up to catch the flowers thrown by god...