I’ve never really fit into any group that well. Maybe that’s part unhealed trauma, part innate oddness, and part superpower. My seat has always been with the misfits. That’s where I belong. With the loners and the rebels, the broken and awkward and divergent ones. With the people who couldn’t fit the box if they […]
Oh, but I am so very much more than a collection of pretty words. I’m tear stained and crumpled poetry; stirring, profound, rubbish, absurd. I’m tranquil shades of arcadian blue, a hawk soaring over wide open skies; demure and charcoal grey backdrops, and storms raging from swollen eyes. I am the stench of decayed, rotting […]
Don’t you know by now that every love poem is about you? Do you not yet see that every song, every hastily scribbled line, every passionate rendition is for you as much as it’s for anyone? Love isn’t a one-on-one thing, something that can be kept between one giver and one receiver – because in […]
One year of the elements – introduced and induced, one by one. Three hundred sixty-five lessons, beneath three hundred and sixty-five suns. The wind was the first among them to rise, to beckon, whispering my name, as a herald, a signal, a caution, a sign, that nothing would ever be the same. Next to call […]
Down in the depths of the ocean are massive, slow moving waves that are never seen from above. Hundreds of feet tall and spanning miles, these waves are so colossal that they completely alter the watery worlds below, but they are revealed only by the tiniest ripples on the surface above. Humans are like that […]
A war torn soul in battered armor asked to sit down to pastries and tea. A crumb rolls off and onto the floor. She grabs for her sword immediately. The gentle music keeps playing, but postured guests shift and stare. The armor is loud in this room, and everyone present seems very aware. A war […]
It’s funny the way it snuck up on me without warning. There was no ellipses, no fresh page or change in the wind, no voice over to announce that the story line had shifted. The story I was living inside subtly adjusted, while my external reality followed loyally behind. It caught me off guard and […]
I look upon a blank page, but not in the same way as before. Once an invitation, a key; but I can’t find the door. What has changed, I wondered, as I forced my hand to fill the space. And my head filled with poems, just old times it retraced. But then it started to […]
Whatever your opinion, and no matter the topic, the moment that you lose sight of the fact that the group you are discussing is a collection of individual humans is the moment you are in the wrong. The moment that your arguments about the adjective become so hyper-focused that you lose sight of the noun, […]
I spoke with a man today about my experience with another man, a complete stranger. Specifically, I told him that I said something to this stranger that you would not say in polite conversation. He asked what happened and I physically winced. Because the moment it escaped my mouth, all of the typical thoughts and […]
The greatest symbol of who we are is not in fireworks, or parades; or in how unified we are while singing the anthem. The greatest symbol of who we are sits in the quiet after the fireworks are done, in the moments before the anthem plays, in how we treat the person next to us, […]
Now is the time to either be stretched wider, or condensed into something smaller. I hope you choose to stretch. I hope you let your heart expand farther than you ever believed it could. To feel the edge of the frame against your fingertips and then just let it go. I hope you let your […]
The trees are still there. Year after year, heartache after joy, after trial after win. They’ve been there the whole time. Holding the sky and the earth together, like it’s no big deal, standing witness to it all. You were never alone. The trees were there. And the sky. And the earth. And if you […]
I wonder if AI can fuck up a sentence in just the right way like I can. And when my tears mix with this ink and words become memorials, Or when the wind sings through the trees then blows them off the page, Will the breath and the water remain after its mechanical regurgitation? I […]
