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Floating heads
My people, we tremblelike night shift watchers with frozen hands and feetand someone dear to ussleeping close…
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please know I only think well of you
well of the health you measured in glass bottleswell of the threads you let tangle into…
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july 23
My body has never felt like mine Not in the beforetimesNot in the aftertimes My spine…
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Desiderium
sunday morningheld so soft and normalbefore the breaka moment so fleeting it’s already lostfeatherlight like eyelashesthe…
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may i never be beautiful
may i never be beautiful may i make art that is strange and gentle and loving may i…
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Shadow work
What are your metaphorstrying not to say? Emotional charades,obscuring what it isfor what it’s like,the blood for…
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This ruin was always my home
Fuck it, this building’s still standingStill concrete though smothered in dustThey tried but they failed at…
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The bear
The bear has no Marquis in his eyes, no twinkle of schadenfreude in his humor, no well-intentioned confidante…
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Battlement
he insists on my space, even when relentless cold & rain has me shining alone ready…
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sweet almond cookie
bullfrog on a lily pad in a pond as deep as hope where heartbreak pops and…
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How to think with carpal tunnel
Before the blank page, the empty mindappeared and faded away like a wet stone spot. The…
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I AM poem
I am usually sleepyThe faint mirage of my mother’s daughter Overwatered, a drunken cactus Behind the camera, watching…
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Where love fails
Practicing cursive in fog inside the glass of a snow globeThe road—I know—Back home—I paved—By heartOh, you and…
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Don’t overthink it
where the eyes & the grackles go plucking after the mare that made mea coward / skinned…
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6 emotions I still cannot name
1. That shin splinting trek between the blue wave you want and the paint blazed bark…
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True crime
Who knows why I watch it—the missing girls, mutilated First by stone, then a phone call gone…
Lizzy Burnam 🐞 