A weighted sadness Pulled me under How far I didn't know My problems were circling Like sharks contemplating a painful bloody kill...

There where we walked over stones between cliff face and sea trees stretched our spirits to sunshine, to sky and the stream’s drill awoke...

In solitude, Loneliness arrived on time, Whispering to my fears, “It’s too late, In this flesh encasement, To try again.” The problem...

On my way to work this morning I saw her at the bus terminal crowded in a corner shielding herself from a world that looks down on her...

You don’t see me standing on the edge, Or what it’s taking me not to fall. You don’t see me ever getting that low, Or how I could even...

For as long as I can remember, my body has never been a home. For me, never, for others, sometimes a place to stay warm for a little...

How many line-breaks since she gave up hoping her almost-boyfriend would text? Even a booty call would be better than alone in her...

How would my mother prepare me?— slice my neck off before severing my wings at the first joint, hang me upside down at eye level, a...

maybe one day I will stop smoking, put down the Shiraz, stop raising every man who ever cried beautiful to my lips- maybe then, I will...

The hills on fire around me I dance under the falling water Birth-naked, feet deep in pine needles sky above wild with stars I dance in...

Of coffee dripping down white ceramic— Distance between seconds stretched like skin Bruised to cover the drum-frame of my breaths Ribs...

She called me holy so I tattooed stigmata on my flesh, blue like her eyes, created a new religion between my thighs. It spoke of love in...