Longing Once more I tread this course, One I know far too well, I enter with hope as well as caution, For I hope to know your beauty as well as I do your horrors I am soaked in the overwhelming need for you, Yet I still feel the burns from our last encounter, So Read More…

  lost   the bed is still warm from when you once lay here with me in solemn rest where i once dreamt a perfect dream   stolen adolescence shielded in shining afternoons, every thought cursed to be all-consumed by you. the forefront of my mind always looking ahead, but something, somehow, always wondering if Read More…

  Plastic Over Paper You said we needed milk. We went to Red’s on Brayton Ave. I asked if I could go in with you. “No,” you said. “I’ll be quick,” you said. You weren’t quick. You came back and went to the back of the van with a bag. The bag was brown. Brown? Read More…

To be                                         Untethered To be momentarily freed from the constant curse of consciousness The burden of                            time continually weighing you down

• I am slapped • I take my first breath • I learned to cry • I learned crawl  • I learned to fall • I learned that everyone is not the same as I