I do not need this pen, nor this paper to speak Though my throat closes up when words start to feel If only I be a hummingbird, iridescent, sharp beaked Never stop flying, fast enough to miss my glimmering...

There are few birds in my garden But they draw me in They are gentle, beautiful And I feel safer in their presence   Look and see   In my hands there are seeds Fragments...

There are times when I wonder what others see.  “The eyes are the window to the soul”, they say- but how- Just how can I look back into those souls with these soulless eyes of mine? How can I ever...

Small town, unincorporated, really A place where all the neighbors are acres away,  yet still close enough to mind everyone else’s onions but your own To know whose parents are divorcing, Which...

Would you dance with me? If the sky was falling In little droplets That dare to freeze time We’ll let the water  Disguise our wet cheeks So we can laugh When it means   That...

I rot deliriously, feathers slick with rain and history, perched on the rib of a telephone wire. my decay disgusted as beauty; black gloss mistaken for omen; and I am filthy.   delirious, so...

It’s a slow day, the clocks tic and toc, yet it feels like forever passes in a moment; the clouds are stationary in the sky, never parting for the sun or letting out their frustrations on our mortal...

When I think of the playground at my elementary school, I think of all of the happy times I had there as a child. Sure, I had no one to play with, but back then I still smiled. The pain of having...

You say I can love no one but myself  And maybe that's so… But then, what is the aching in my chest  Is that my heart, or simply an empty void siphoning the youth out of my bones  If I’m...

At the age of 3, I treasured school. I adored nature and the presence of the trees. They felt like guardians, and their branches reached up at the sky, standing strong through every season. The memories...

Lying down in a clean room, my mind steeped in  Pink vapors,    I hear a slow song.      Mermaid  Voices.       Far from here.       They are A little dream of mine,         ...

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