Control: to have power over, to keep within limits. Accordingly to the definition What do we really have control over Can we stretch time Or slow i...Read more

I miss raising my kids with my sister, Children drop offs at moms house, To do something we probably shouldn't. I miss the comfort at the end of the ...Read more

There was ichor in our veins. Mine from yours, just under skin, drawn with vampyric teeth from the tattoo on your ribs. Teasing every drop to your hi...Read more

I am a sheep Not a wolf I do not prey on the weak, But I pray without ceasing. I am not a hunter I graze Among still waters And the depths of His past...Read more

The nylon strings have become more visible With the ascent of the blinding light. With more eyes to see than there are wills unleashed. Becoming a me...Read more

There are many rooms in my soul Filled with dusty shedded skin From the person I was yesterday It feels impossible To keep two rooms clean At the sa...Read more

"Not hopeless if you are less than 21." - Ezra Pound What is the wealth of my experience? I wonder, with what speed should my heart fall, How man...Read more

No one gives a damn about a poem until they need a poem — Omotara James. No one writes a poem because they want ...Read more

When I say, "love," What do you hear? When I say, "I love you," Is it just a middle syllable Like a metronome beat, Semantic satiation? Or do you fe...Read more

Your truth and mine are double-edged swords— tides in different synchronicity They see lies in what the other bleeds for. They see the fault in the h...Read more

I did not choose this shape, but it is mine. the river moves slowly, softening what it loves until it is smooth. have patience. it will take years of...Read more

Great fortune will follow you. You will eat the heart of a horse in winter. You won’t have to pray twice. Every mountain will unclench its jaw...Read more

Get used to being carried everywhere. Sunlight and rain are both your companions. Sometimes you'll be forgotten. Sometimes you'll become the one every...Read more

Ootheca on my window frame Take your time For I like the winter am in no rush And you like the cold Have every right to linger My little phyllon Enc...Read more

A dried well sits along a sugarcane mill, on a stretch of land encompassing three dialects. You see kids rolling tires and tubes, medieval games in ...Read more

Realizing thankfully somewhere at some point Perfection is an impossible ask Why was it made the benchmark of every task Perfection is a concept we gr...Read more

Suppose fate misplaced us, you and I, both miserable, holding on, yet never close enough to become each other's pulse. Young, foolish, and unbearably...Read more

It ebbs and flows. Your vacancy assails my lofty bungalow. I still pace those halls where we used to play hide-and-seek, where the throes of the worl...Read more

when my eyes blinked open, I saw the rain had given way to cotton candy clouds and golden sun spilled inside to decorate my floors. I walked to the ri...Read more

There are nights when I wonder why we continue living when the ending is always the same. We spend years trying to become someone, trying to leave a...Read more