Collection Available on Amazon💕 Slowburn - a sapphic poetry collection
be wild as fuck
but never forget
wild ones still hug their mamas necks,
and your bad behavior will bite
those you love next.
#poetry
be wild as fuck
but never forget
wild ones still hug their mamas necks,
and your bad behavior will bite
those you love next.
#poetry
n. A kind of melancholic trance in which you become completely absorbed in vivid sensory details; raindrops skittering down a window, tall trees leaning in the wind, clouds of cream in your coffee. Briefly soaking in the experience of being alive, an act that is done purely for its own sake.
n. A kind of melancholic trance in which you become completely absorbed in vivid sensory details; raindrops skittering down a window, tall trees leaning in the wind, clouds of cream in your coffee. Briefly soaking in the experience of being alive, an act that is done purely for its own sake.
Yet in another,
I would tuck you in.
Tell you every bedtime story.
Lift you on my shoulders to breathe from higher places
I know not if you ever ventured to.
Mother believe me I—if we end
up tied together in another life—
would be your Mom this time.
Yet in another,
I would tuck you in.
Tell you every bedtime story.
Lift you on my shoulders to breathe from higher places
I know not if you ever ventured to.
Mother believe me I—if we end
up tied together in another life—
would be your Mom this time.
universally isolating as it is.
Eventually will I think anything
besides, “I want my mom back.”
Eventually will I breathe through posts reminding me—oh right. . .
Mom slipped into that final, silent sleep.
When!
When?
Please.
#poetry #grief #dailypoem
universally isolating as it is.
Eventually will I think anything
besides, “I want my mom back.”
Eventually will I breathe through posts reminding me—oh right. . .
Mom slipped into that final, silent sleep.
When!
When?
Please.
#poetry #grief #dailypoem
if not a promise
to oneself of a future endeavor?
What is a dream if not the
seeds of a wish?
Where are you planting your promises?
When do you water them?
When do you harvest?
Since when did obtainability have anything to do with wishing-dreaming-wanting?
#poetry
if not a promise
to oneself of a future endeavor?
What is a dream if not the
seeds of a wish?
Where are you planting your promises?
When do you water them?
When do you harvest?
Since when did obtainability have anything to do with wishing-dreaming-wanting?
#poetry
than you remember starting.
visit more tables,
than you can fathom setting.
laugh and cry and sing,
words alone waste life’s mysteries.
do more than a luna moth might,
knowing the exact time until they die.
Love so deeply,
our grief comforts more than aches.
#poetry
than you remember starting.
visit more tables,
than you can fathom setting.
laugh and cry and sing,
words alone waste life’s mysteries.
do more than a luna moth might,
knowing the exact time until they die.
Love so deeply,
our grief comforts more than aches.
#poetry
Lost in other realms
I read and reel
until the crickets start signaling
it's the moon's time to feel.
Habit flips down a corner,
you always begged not to dog-ear a page
remember--"leave no trace!"
Lost in other realms
I read and reel
until the crickets start signaling
it's the moon's time to feel.
Habit flips down a corner,
you always begged not to dog-ear a page
remember--"leave no trace!"
stone cold windows of steel
the icy winters of youth
know just what the years steal.
What I once begged for—a sled and an hour—is a flick of the wrist.
Unnecessary. Next year.
The sledding hill has been barren for years.
If it snowed would the urge drive my bones?
#poetry
stone cold windows of steel
the icy winters of youth
know just what the years steal.
What I once begged for—a sled and an hour—is a flick of the wrist.
Unnecessary. Next year.
The sledding hill has been barren for years.
If it snowed would the urge drive my bones?
#poetry
i cannot say eloquently what i cannot say plainly.
i can only erupt
vomiting like Vesuvius
as everything turns to ash
and call myself a monicker earned for feats far greater than words from me.
I retain Poet, flapping endlessly.
i cannot say eloquently what i cannot say plainly.
i can only erupt
vomiting like Vesuvius
as everything turns to ash
and call myself a monicker earned for feats far greater than words from me.
I retain Poet, flapping endlessly.
circumstances from dateline
overnight corpses and coffins and coffee become my Sunday times.
circumstances from dateline
overnight corpses and coffins and coffee become my Sunday times.
clutching so tightly I thought
she would never let go.
Tears reflect, rolling down
but the metal has no arms
with which to wrap around.
So I do.
Swaying to her sobbing tune.
Everyone returns to life.
I convince her we have to go.
She lets go.
Did I?
clutching so tightly I thought
she would never let go.
Tears reflect, rolling down
but the metal has no arms
with which to wrap around.
So I do.
Swaying to her sobbing tune.
Everyone returns to life.
I convince her we have to go.
She lets go.
Did I?
in my voicemail box
it’s near five hundred now
i remove the phone app
there will never be five hundred
i hide all notifications
I need no more reminders
of what once always was
of what now never can be
in my voicemail box
it’s near five hundred now
i remove the phone app
there will never be five hundred
i hide all notifications
I need no more reminders
of what once always was
of what now never can be
instead of Mom
saying it’s fine
saying “sorry to worry you”
I hear “There’s no easy way to say”
what the caller’s title conveys
the knowledge seeps in
through silence anyway
Mom won’t be calling again
instead of Mom
saying it’s fine
saying “sorry to worry you”
I hear “There’s no easy way to say”
what the caller’s title conveys
the knowledge seeps in
through silence anyway
Mom won’t be calling again
south— how we met again.
to the east, supper time
in the west morning coffee
brewed under Sunday’s Times.
When we lift up the hood along the drive
everyone is trying to get by.
there is no world that does not encompass
the endless efforts of humanity
south— how we met again.
to the east, supper time
in the west morning coffee
brewed under Sunday’s Times.
When we lift up the hood along the drive
everyone is trying to get by.
there is no world that does not encompass
the endless efforts of humanity