girl meets world The girl cannot write of trees lest she become their roots sprouting brilliant and full up, up, up pinnacle of self...

Amicable We talk about exes who we left on friendly terms, and those—usually just one— who we'd take all over again in an instant. Even...

Do people exhaust the sea? The riverine widens, As the moon becomes full And so does the tide The white and invisible surface Smears the...

before : you wanted to be the man she needed you to be, wanted to catch spiders and fix leaks, build shelves and drive the moving van....

It hurts less when I cast us in history 1898 You are America; She: Paris; All of my white boyfriends: Spain. The difference, you said,...

Benevolent Assimilation Before I was born, I knew kindness was a weapon Sharper than a bayonet. A moving bullet. Thrust it to change my...

A Father Poem Do stories ever befool children? Blood was invading my head when you return from work your shirt was a fragile tobacco...

Zehra a lasting breath that folds my heart migrate me from the far maps on your breast zehra, your solitude blanching my eyes write me on...

Samaira Samaira takes her morning coffee black; the bitter burn a test match for her tongue to swing defences and offences back and...

BEFORE transcend the sky baby we were so high blinded by our love everything orbited around us stars twinkling in our eyes limitless and...

Before Sinking Bitterness in silence, failure chronicled by my own hand, nails carving into the surface, etching my collected...

Before, you were “He loves me”, as I picked the maze of petals from a rose. I thought you could never love me not. A warm hug, the brush...

thought exercise in the short time left pre-war imagine: a big atom bomb coming towards home on a midsummer evening. let me tell you the...

How to Eat an American Mango Slice two mango boats away from the bone. Cut its flesh into a checkerboard-- Each juicy square is a piece...

This absent forgetting This absent forgetting of the heart; this slight disrespect to the curvature of my love The way your hands glaze...

All you can measure Two black holes; I am, i am spiraling towards an infinite pool - of matter, or how it matters, or the mingling of...

Waterfall Moments If it were possible I would have lived in that moment. I would have folded my shirts, Bought new socks Packed my bags...

Weighing Words The words are weighed on my tongue a delicate measurements taken to see if this one is too heavy and will sink, if those...

Twenty Six Seconds You could set a timer From the second we separate, To when I shatter Like a windshield. Press start as soon as your...

Hiraeth I knew my iPhone could not capture the magic of the trees shrouded in hoarfrost: the aftermath of ice fog that descended from the...