is to scratch at the truth
until it bleeds freely.
A neurosis
of picking at a thing,
trying to untangle its beauty
without leaving a scar.
#poetry
I walk the corridors of broken years,
keys jangling in my chest
like teeth pulled from old gods.
I am archivist of the unsaid,
curator of unfinished hauntings,
the reluctant priest
of everything I swore I’d forget.
#masterofmemory #foxprose #poetry
someone else’s noise ricocheting off our minds
a hallway of borrowed footsteps,
a chorus stitched from other people’s wanting.
Maybe the “I” is only the quietest voice
#poetryprompt #MPPprompt #poetry
someone else’s noise ricocheting off our minds
a hallway of borrowed footsteps,
a chorus stitched from other people’s wanting.
Maybe the “I” is only the quietest voice
#poetryprompt #MPPprompt #poetry
Chaos hidden in the que,
restless pacing in place
while order draws lines
straight, deliberate,
meant to tame the want.
But every line is a fiction,
a polite lie dressed as civility,
and I am standing at the end of it,
the last point before the world falls off.
#vss365 #poetry
its chrome cage
warming into something
almost comforting,
a renewal of the stale.
We watched the coils glow red,
listened to the slow rise
of heat and resignation,
a familiar ritual of small failures
and quiet endurance.
#BlueskyRelay #welaughedbeforethetoast
#poetry
its chrome cage
warming into something
almost comforting,
a renewal of the stale.
We watched the coils glow red,
listened to the slow rise
of heat and resignation,
a familiar ritual of small failures
and quiet endurance.
#BlueskyRelay #welaughedbeforethetoast
#poetry
for a little while just long enough to make them real before they vanish.
for a little while just long enough to make them real before they vanish.
When it hurts, stop.
When it makes you crumble, stop.
Seems simple
but some of us were raised
to keep walking on broken glass,
to mistake our bleeding for progress,
to believe endurance was the only way
to be worthy of rest,
hell to be worthy of breath.
#poetry
When it hurts, stop.
When it makes you crumble, stop.
Seems simple
but some of us were raised
to keep walking on broken glass,
to mistake our bleeding for progress,
to believe endurance was the only way
to be worthy of rest,
hell to be worthy of breath.
#poetry
Coming closer than comfortable
is another year gone by.
I take stock
as if there were ledger lines,
some way of finding out if I balanced.
Coming closer than comfortable
is another year gone by.
I take stock
as if there were ledger lines,
some way of finding out if I balanced.
as if unsure whether to stay
or surrender.
A soft stutter of flame
the kind that reveals truth
deciding on its own
whether it had a right to exist.
#BlueskyRelay #prompt #poetry
as if unsure whether to stay
or surrender.
A soft stutter of flame
the kind that reveals truth
deciding on its own
whether it had a right to exist.
#BlueskyRelay #prompt #poetry
in the way she folds the morning light
into the weight of memory,
how she gathers every broken hour
like sea glass on Devon’s shore,
softened by the tides that shaped it.
#foxprose #poetry #contritiondefinesher
in the way she folds the morning light
into the weight of memory,
how she gathers every broken hour
like sea glass on Devon’s shore,
softened by the tides that shaped it.
#foxprose #poetry #contritiondefinesher
a final inhale, a pause
like the world was trying
to remember itself.
#poetry
a final inhale, a pause
like the world was trying
to remember itself.
#poetry
I walk the corridors of broken years,
keys jangling in my chest
like teeth pulled from old gods.
I am archivist of the unsaid,
curator of unfinished hauntings,
the reluctant priest
of everything I swore I’d forget.
#masterofmemory #foxprose #poetry
I walk the corridors of broken years,
keys jangling in my chest
like teeth pulled from old gods.
I am archivist of the unsaid,
curator of unfinished hauntings,
the reluctant priest
of everything I swore I’d forget.
#masterofmemory #foxprose #poetry
Such a small word,
light as dust,
yet you fling it like a stone
aimed at the soft parts of me
you think I haven’t armored.
You the mouthpiece of the cynical,
the cheap-seat critics,
the brittle-tongued prophets
of nothing.
#poetry #criticsandcynics
Such a small word,
light as dust,
yet you fling it like a stone
aimed at the soft parts of me
you think I haven’t armored.
You the mouthpiece of the cynical,
the cheap-seat critics,
the brittle-tongued prophets
of nothing.
#poetry #criticsandcynics
a tender refusal
to let the hard things harden me.
So I breathe,
unclench,
and let the poem arrive anyway
a fragile idea,
in the tumultuous world of existing,
not because it’s easy,
but because I couldn’t stop it
even if I tried.
#poetry
a tender refusal
to let the hard things harden me.
So I breathe,
unclench,
and let the poem arrive anyway
a fragile idea,
in the tumultuous world of existing,
not because it’s easy,
but because I couldn’t stop it
even if I tried.
#poetry
They arrive like cold sparks
tiny, vicious bursts
from shadows that never sign their names.
Strangers with sharpened thumbs,
dropping venom in passing,
as if hate were casual,
as if your existence were an offense
they’d been waiting to arrest.
#poetry
They arrive like cold sparks
tiny, vicious bursts
from shadows that never sign their names.
Strangers with sharpened thumbs,
dropping venom in passing,
as if hate were casual,
as if your existence were an offense
they’d been waiting to arrest.
#poetry
They come as they are
bare, unvarnished,
honest enough to bruise,
brutal enough to bleed.
This is the only language
I have ever trusted:
the kind that doesn’t pretend
to be anything other
than the truth.
#poetry
They come as they are
bare, unvarnished,
honest enough to bruise,
brutal enough to bleed.
This is the only language
I have ever trusted:
the kind that doesn’t pretend
to be anything other
than the truth.
#poetry
by every set of eyes but mine
people chart growth noting
in the subtle shifts I cannot feel.
I move through days
learning how to hold a body again,
pushing myself to be
#vss365 #measurable
by every set of eyes but mine
people chart growth noting
in the subtle shifts I cannot feel.
I move through days
learning how to hold a body again,
pushing myself to be
#vss365 #measurable