Rejection bred stupidity Lightly I took the opportunities Fearing my real self would be seen I became another A skin of opaque change A crust of i...Read more

I saw this prompt in a poetry and writing magazine while locked up. It simmered on my mind for a long while and then it came out. I was reminded of th...Read more

Oats rolled flat. The grayish pale nourishment Much like the brain Though These have no want No need, no desire For a hand touching a back Hold...Read more

I stood as the boy watching you work the shovel. Years went by and still your words kept getting deeper. When you left I crawled in to keep going with...Read more

So deep in my fear I reside Sleeping through day into dawn Never holding to reality Life is a series of lies Told as though my being exists only in a...Read more