elizabethburnam

A love like water

Falling asleeplike a sea star and a stone. Buoyed under belly, coconut milk, seaweed-satin and your…
Vines on brick buildings

Everyone loves the tired charm of those abandoned warehouse buildings, tired as a donkey worked to…
Exoskeletons

In college I dated a carpenter ant. When we first met, we recognized each other immediately,…
Timeline of reasons I forgot to check my phone

a crowded beach, 3; a small wink of affection, 12; wading in the seance of myself,…
Dirge for executive function

The envelopes, unopened still: a hill too great to conquer. It’s not a matter of Free…
Boundaries

I’ve nothing to say Even haikus are strenuous Giving brain a break
Sedona

On rainy days I close my eyes and wake up in Sedona on a small mountain…
Love poem for a dying aloe vera plant

we loved you through the long cold December we tried tried to keep you warm ran…
Agoraphobe with a webcam

but you can’t shake my pride ! she says. an audience of everyone sends clap emojis…
(My)self

One of the first poems we’re taught to writeis the “I Am” poem. It’s supposed to…
Today I learned that Nikola Tesla fell in love with a pigeon

She was the light of his life: one of thousands, a pigeon pure-white as a lightning…
Glory

Can’t nobody holdmy handnow. I aman arrowaimed at the appleof the earth. I’m a drop of…
Being bigger

In the morning I circle the house, openingall the blinds. If the sun’s out, I step…
The lilac tree

On a Spring morning when I was 5 years old, I sat on the couch with…
The ABCs of corporate survival

always be concealing ur colossal heart & diverting from ur dumbass dreams. everyone knows rhyme &…
Justine

A girl I used to knowhad a high, soft voice, gentle as the yellow glow of…
Some days the ghost is quiet

Some days the ghost is quiet and I think the end will start. No rattling, no…
Free time

I had a good day: I spent the morningin a bagel shop with plants crawling up…
On beauty

I want to be uglyas a bramble thornor an eagle’s neston a telephone pole
green flash at sunset

the nail tech wraps my feet in hot towels scented with sage and lavender, a combinationshe…