Autumn, It’s the color of your breath, when I ripped open my skin showing you all the planets that s… the air between us a frozen crimso…
Be crumbled, they said. It’s okay to admit you don’t have always copper hands, [my father had copper hands and I guess mine were trying to match] These people they’ll look for you, ...
My mother asked me why you are all… I told her to imagine she had swal… and that every star is burning ben… the moon tearing at the fragile sk… I told her to imagine she had wing…
I am trying to rip open the sky that sleeps in all of their mouths. The quiet. The storms. Their hurricane arms growing awkward around me. Growing absent around me. No longer around me....
Somewhere between your chapped lips and the silhouette of your body pressed against mine, sits the spaces your figure can not fill in me. I’ve held onto your hand as if its grip would n...
Five years old, I remember the first day I met yo… like a mother who had just found h… I said your name for the first tim… yet I held you inside my youthful…
Tongue tied lava sky. Teeth scraping against heavy mouth… Clouds wrapped around waists, waists wrapped around hands, waists curved,
Oh what a beautiful soul you have, your skin doesn’t glisten and your eyes don’t shine. But your soul is bright enough for the both of them. I can feel the ocean beating inside your lun...
For the lion under my skin, who ro… For the heartbeat under my chest t… For the feet I feel walking acros… for the feet I feel tugging at the… I am sorry, I am just not ready t…
There was something heavy about th… Or maybe it was the way it didn’t… I wear October on my forearms lik… That I can not take off until it… I have finished the words that tri…
There were sharks in our mouths This is what November tasted of; Blood and not knowing you were an… Pulling out stitches, maybe if I… You told me you were leaving and…
I dreamed of watching you grow, like the Lilly’s outside my bedroom windowsill. But instead I watched you disappear, and learned to let you go. Drunk off the summer heat I drowned in yo...
Underneath our skin we shine the same shade of winter, the shade that desperately misses its vibrant leaves and the autumn air. Underneath my spine sleeps a garden of roses, they lay aw...
Your body was my home, my bones were planted beneath your skin like sunflowers that felt the sun for the first time. You breathed planets into my spine and for the first time, I tasted ...
He held his knuckles against his s… My mother told me ever since he le… there has been a hurricane inside… She asked me why I thought love f… My mother drove me to the train st…