Category Archives: Poetry
You Call Me A Liar
You would not like the real me. I tell you this all the time. I tell you this as I take off my coat, my sweater, my mask, my face. I tell you this as I unzip my skin. I … Continue reading
Five Ways Of Looking
I. Sometimes I can’t help but wonder at the forks in the road. Paths not taken. Discoveries not made. How would they have turned out? No different than anyone else looking back on their lives, but I feel infinitely ill-prepared … Continue reading
100 Words: Reach/Drown
I realize you’re drowning. Should I just stand by the river and watch as you go below? I can’t not plunge in up to my elbows and pull you back out, pull you above, give you breath. Open your eyes, … Continue reading
Fury
The moment –over and gone the thing that was perfect –ruined forever, in too-tight fists
Pieces
Do you have any idea how you left me? Shattered, cut to shreds. I peeled myself away from the bottom of the bottle because I had to, but then I was just floating there, drowning. Fifty years, do you even … Continue reading