Narcissism “I love you,” I love owning you. “Sorry,” ...

Paradise Lost me, but I know it’ll find me again Sitting in Ms. Crane’s eleventh grade British Literature class, my world, and John...

Silhouette Long distance is a string of two cans— poorly constructed and easily broken by one, two, or three bad miscommunications. Long...

scorn discard your disgust with everything you deem too dark, heavy, or scarred / for you are the weak link— it is not building up if...

Hypergraphia I stopped to write a few lines this morning before settling down to do my tasks, so now I'm a mess of emotions. I need to...

Garden gone. My garden wilted in the rain Only a yellow carnation remains Its petals are as yellow as a lemon. In the mud red carnations...

crisis of faith He twists a knife in my back retracts & mends and calls it mercy He made a crooked design, warped, nefarious, criminal,...

withdrawal I walk past the alleys/We slithered into/Hours past my curfew/It's been a week since you last spoke to me/And a month/Since I...

The Globe Here are borders defined By blocks of color out of date By the time it comes to stand On my desk, tilted like the head Of a...

Fairy Tales My best friend believes in fairies. The kind that come into your garden And help flowers bloom, Or the ones who cover you in...

Temple An idol shattered finely, Scratched and worn out from the other side With All the other flaws it hides somewhere   And yet the...

rest home screams unnatural to me mother looking down ignore it, don’t acknowledge it kind of scowl so we...

why didn’t anybody tell me? they told me all sorts of things why romeo wanted juliet so bad / manners / the number of planets circling...

A Letter From My Grandmother It was one small note that had started it all— it read “dearest April Frances, I went on a walk the other...

Tickled pink like my cat's tongue, and I'm reminded of when I was a child, waiting to greet my childhood best friend, Zoe, in my wide...

The Process of Loving Another Human One, Two Months go By and you Think this could go all The way into your twenty-years. Three, Four...

Science Lesson When the lion fell in love with the lamb, was he even aware of basic biology? I guess he simply did not give a damn when...

Innocence They say to stop worrying, you should visualise your childhood, carefree days of bare feet on freshly-mowed grass, jumping over...

Worth(less) The past is a midnight dance, which is to say, it clings to you like Depression-era dancers clung to each other as they...

Mother her song pulls the rain down a white curtain with a ruffled hem light scatters and the harsh lines of tall buildings melt the cars...