I stand, uncertain, swaying on unsteady feet My hair is frenzied and frenetic, Yet not nearly as scattered as my disparate face, Worn by...

Yellow wheat waves softly in the calm midmorning wind The black shadows of the distant forest rear their two-dimensional heads The teal...

The river sings against the wind It sings a song against the wind It sings a song of valleys bridged And tumultuous torrents of other...

Tired eyes raise to the golden walls Their grey tears mirrored by the savior’s eyes The hard brown pews bring infinite comfort To the...

Black and blue, brown and white, The bundles I carry are fluffy and light; My eyes are heavy, my garment blood red, It is scarlet for my...

Let me be forgotten. Let my smile be stricken from memory; My laughter, erased from the air. Let time erode my sorrows, Let age rust over...

The darkness burns as it consumes you. From the inside out you are engulfed. These dreams are not yours; These desires are dangerous. Yet...

I know why you did what you did. I understand that you wanted to protect me, I love you, and I always will, but— –No, listen to me— You...

The tin-foil star was torn from the sky but burns a bit in sunlight. The beach chills me to the core, today. I’m wearing shorts. My...

Turtle, turtle, stay away No sir, no sir, we shall not play. I know you seem alright to me But still, a snapper you could very well be....

I know I swam through clouds, once Creation swirled around me in pearly wisps But the ground came calling And now I fight for air....

Like a bird with no wings, I I flounder through faded fields of ash I taste the faintest fury beneath my tongue I scrounge for substance...

Her hands are worn from walking the Earths and Moving stars in the dead of night. She wears rings for utility and because She likes their...

We met in the circle of stones, and neither of us knew what to make of each other. Me in a t-shirt, sweatpants, holding a crudely carved...

I see him, sometimes, there. The doorway where he left me that night. Golden paint chipped, garish. He’d always promised to paint it. But...

Written in 2016. I didn’t mean to do it, honestly. It kind of happened without me intending. But I guess that intentions don’t mean much,...

Let down fall away below the surface there are no divisions no layers in the water all the way down all one and all unwounded Send it...

“It’s okay,” said the rose to the boy. “I know you didn’t mean to.” Billy did not think what he had done was okay. Not even a little bit....

So little is a stone But it has seen more sunrises than You, Your father, Your father’s father, Your father’s father’s father, Or even...

III. I am not the shadow behind me or the sunburnt skin peeling off, it was my choice not to wear sunblock and I will bear the...