You are the flinch my heart makes.
I miss the way my name sounded in
I miss your laughter, even as it s
I don’t know where you are.
I think you’ll always be right nex

Be crumbled, they said. It’s okay
[my father had copper hands and I
These people they’ll look for you,
The water flows in front of me lik
My fathers words sit in me like th

They asked me to become something

It was autumn and my skin had fall
My mouth left with nothing but a t
to make you stay.
It was autumn and my body lay rest
I pretended it were a pile of yell

For you I let my heart flinch lik
I blame it on you but I know I’m
Home seems a little smaller now.
I left the black and blue’s on my
This missing puzzle piece has muff

I woke in the middle of the night,

4 days deep in January’s throat an
My breath has become even shallowe
When I promised myself
I wouldn’t forget how to breathe a
I remember the days when my bones

Last night I closed my eyes and d

Most people are born homesick.
They leave the home their mothers
Most of us are born homesick.
But then we hear our parents carve
We hear their voices fuse together

Strawberry blonde fingertips
Her hair like star-trails
A child beneath her skin
Bones aching like the shadow of yo
Thunder crackling through the sky

To be a writer means to trade in t

This past October I have found th
This past October I have found th
I still have ashes on my spine whe
the last night you ever burned me.
This past October I have learned

The colors of your breath are drip
The feelings of the wind curl arou
I will hold you until my hands bec
to put you down.
I found your shadow resting in bet

Because my father never told me,
that my jupiter hands were glisten
Planets spinning all around me,
All inside me;
I let my fingers be cut away with

I sit buried in the sand, eyes clo

My mouth is a field of strangled w
the next time I opened them to rid
My limbs are made of star seeds, p
And I was out in the night dancin
I sat glowing upon this world I o

I sat on the edge of London, peop

Tonight I will write poetry benea

You were happy,
You held the world between the pal
The ocean tied around your neck
But it became too heavy
And you had no where to put it dow

My darling, my ocean, my moon and

Out beyond memories of the sun on
My hands, wrapped around your wais
Out beyond thoughts, that run thro
lays worlds,
lays people, that I’ve forgotten b

In my 19 years I have figured out
I have not reached the merit of em
I have not learned the manner of c
I have not obtained a medium for d
When you ask why my voice shakes l

I stood with my back to the mouth
Leaving for you must have been eas
Being loved isn’t always a good th
I forgive you, for what it’s worth
I forgive your silent tongue, your

Your name is stuck in my throat, a

Sleeping, aching, tugging the skin

One:
Never spit the fire you feel growi
Two: remember,
You named her Luna, because she w
because she lit

To the one who calls himself home:
You let me live in you like a clou
When you left I named you worthle
Cup your hands at the base of my t
You told me you loved me like the

I fell in love with the sound of t
It reminded me of the firecracker
when you told me,
you could no longer be home to me.
I touched the backs of my hands,

Darling your flesh is painted crim

Dancing round the room,
darling I feel so light
The moon on my skin,
His voice is my music tonight
Pacing round the room,

From young we are taught how to sp

I guess I had a million hopes
I guess I had hundreds of expecta
I suppose I grew a house for you
Inside my bones
Without asking

They asked me why my hands smelled
I took the wind and clenched it be
It’s a funny thing, irony.
They asked me why I keep myself s
Maybe I’m too hungry. Too curious

White noise, bleeding through the
I am not ready,
I am not ready to let you go.
Still she pulled, she pulled you a
The ocean moving under my body

Somewhere between your chapped lip
I’ve grown tired of your crooked g

You don’t remember what her mouth
No you don’t remember what her per
the night she called you by your b
the kites under her skin,
pulling