The Poetry of Emotion
We are driving home. Dark stretches across the sky. Rain thumps the windshield. From the back seat, my gaze is steady on the glass, moving lines of rain held between the profiles of my parents―my mother's black hair against the seat, the rigid musculature of my father. Square lighted windows of houses glare like... Continue Reading →
After these many weeks, your body is like a once-familiar town that I’m uneasy in. Something is no longer right. I walk the same streets, but no more as someone who should be there, whose natural place it is, to walk them. I’ve become a stranger now, mimicking belonging that was mine before this cruel separation that... Continue Reading →
Seeking a purpose on the curious island surrounded by land to the farthest peaks lush prairies devoid of what he once knew. Abandoned was the hope of a kin stranger in the lives of those once near not even a plea could reach his teary gaze. Space empty as the cosmos imprisoned his flesh tighter... Continue Reading →
Seated in Sukhasana, head over heart heart over pelvis, I lower my gaze to my chest. Large pores, nascent stages of wrinkling, span my cleavage. Boldly on display, joining blood blisters and freckles and fine baby hairs. I’m proud of these marks. My mom has them. My aunt, too, who bronzes better than all the... Continue Reading →
her lovely eyes remind me of all my failures each kiss a weapon aimed directly at this darkened heart i'm too stubborn to count my blessings this depression will slowly kill me even if the most beautiful woman in the world does everything she can to stop it Photo by Jonathan... Continue Reading →
Bury me deep in the tall meadow grass and bury me deep in your arms. Lie with me here in the sun ripening flowers where the blue of the sky hides the clouds. Bury me deep in your cool white sheets and kiss my eyes and my mouth. And as the warmth of your body... Continue Reading →
There is no romance in this land just tiny elf owlets begging in desperate chorus from their hollowed saguaro for their mother’s catch and the ferocious beating of insect wings against the searing air like the dying gasp of an old plodding bass drum Everything is poisonous or stings or pricks or bites Behind the... Continue Reading →
I'm from Hannah Montana The Best of Both Worlds From singing at the top of my lungs With comb for a mic I'm from the old neighborhood The sweet childhood memories From after school games And childish shenanigans I'm from Barbie Dolls And kitchen set From operating on fake patients With my doctor's... Continue Reading →
Make all the pain stop take it all away, death shall come like a thief in the night, lucid, like a wayward friend. This heart thrust fourth a loneliness most could never fully fathom. Spiders weave their webs in midnight silhouette, an inconclusive rattling of time, eyes that echo a dawn, never seen. I held her... Continue Reading →
Today will not be different. Mercury is in retrograde, expect a tsunami of unwanted advances. On Thursday, a tumultuous relationship long thought dead will attempt to rise from the grave. By Friday, you’ll be on eggshells delicately walking through the remnants of a friendship once thought shatterproof. The weekend brings rain. Your roses won’t survive... Continue Reading →
Ephemeral Elegies 