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- ExtraMy mouth always opensWay too wideThe words spill out of the cornersAnd puddle on the floorI’m always cleaning upAfter it My mind always reachesWay too farCreating connection in thin airStretching…More
- PackingThis messy roomPiles of things I shouldn’t have saidPiles of things you wanted to seeBut not help me clean upSo now I have to do it.My needsMy wantsMy heartEverything goes…More
- WeedsParanoia is a seed of doubtThat grows in vines,Planted in the backOf the fields of my brain.And it spreads its disease,It’s tentacles swarming,Nestling itself in the folds.And the knuckles clench…More
- ArdorI don’t know if I remember What love feels likeBut I know I remember warmth I remember phone conversationsThat chase dawnVoices straining from use I remember a midday messageThinking of…More
- CompartmentI dumped a boxAnd all its contentsFlung in every directionAll over youAll over me And we sat thereDumbfounded at the messBefore you gingerly removedEverything from youAnd handed it back to…More
- DesertedIf I stretch my sand out as farAs it will goI will still be alone in this ocean.If my palms reach the cloudsTaller and taller in the heavensI will still…More
- YoungSummer days stretched on for eternity,Burned in my memoryLike sun-scorched earth in July.Foreverlong months of movement,Of bike rides and hula hoops,Snow cones and late night movies. When we’d park with…More
- ForwardHow do you save yourselfFrom yourself?How can you pick yourself upFrom the depths againWhen your strength to do it aloneIs gone? One limb at a time. One movement at a…More
- I’m the OneI am the soft place I land. I am the arms that open to hold me. I am the place I feel safest. Those other places are hard.The arms don’t…More
- Base LineThe bricks fall hardThey were stacked so haphazardly To begin withYet somehow I’m still surprised When the tower of them fall. It’s because I try to pile themOn someone else’s…More
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