I keep salt waterin a jar on mykitchen shelf,for days whenI can’t facemy days. I take down the jar andgently tilt the waterback and forth,letting the capturedwaves hypnotiseme until I’m lost ina timeless sea. Far away fromthis broken morning,far away…
At night, we stare into the black,ponder the position of the stars,meditate on matters of faith,and compose soaring balladsof thanks for our blessings.Throwing our worries to the wind. With the rising of the wind,we look deeper into the midnight black,and…
You want to write meinto your lines,but I refuse to rhyme. You want to mold meout of clay,but I will not yield. You want to sketch mein thick, charcoal strokes,but my form remains elusive. You are a perfectionist,but I am…
I am hanging by a thread –outside, a solid shellformed against the world. Inside –inside I am liquid. I am everchanging.I am rearranging. I am suspended in afluid, in-between stateof not this, not yet that. Complete breakdown.Complete withdrawal. Desperately hoping…
Beneath the fogof sleepless nights,I wake togrey morningaftergrey morningaftergrey morning. The lack of sunlightand color dulls my vision.The hum of alternativefacts dulls my mind.The very act ofgetting out of bedfeels brave in thisnew world whereevery news cycleseems to come withheavy…
The winter air is too thin andthe January moon shines too brightly.I will stay inside to tend the hearth,to warm myself by the fire,to protect myself from the cold. For the January moon shines too brightlyand it may reveal the…
After fights with him,I seek comfort inused bookstores,surrounded bypeeling book spines,the words of ghosts, andthe whisper of turned pages.The stories of peoplewho have it worse than I do. He seeks comfort inneighborhood barssurrounded bypeeling beer labels,the laughter of drunks, andthe…
I looked for youin the linesof your poetry.I hunted for youin the spaces betweenyour pretty words.I rearranged theletters to tryand form secretmessages meantonly for me.Ultimately, I criedout in anguishwhen I realizedthat there was nothingfor me to readbetween your lines,nothing but…
