Category Archives: Poetry
The Funniest Part
The funniest part is watching them crawl, thinking if they push hard, if they try hard, if they do it just right, if they dance for the gods above them that they will be elevated, that they will be lifted … Continue reading
What Do You Have
What do you have to say for yourself, you who are by design the smallest, the least, the worst of all of us, daring to stand up, daring to present, daring to pretend you are something you are not, are … Continue reading
Imaginary
There are times I dream of him, and what he did to me. In the mornings, when I wake, I imagine leading him barefoot through a maze of coals across a quick highway, famed for gang-related violence and other natural … Continue reading
Tastes Like
There are those who say you must bite into life, that you must take the fruit of it with your teeth, and know of its sweetness. There are those who advise that you should drink of life, swallow it, consume … Continue reading
Left Behind
Fingertips find scars on my skin from where one of us tried to tear our way in — Or maybe one of me tried to tear its way out. This heavy flesh, too soft, too weak, too rounded. Carve it … Continue reading