I only know of lullabiesaddressed to my soul, drip beautifully downfrom your perfect lips, washing away my fears. If you only knew all thethings you said to mewere poisoning my mind. Sure not of the truth anymore,too many feelings colliding,swirling around my head. I know you’ve stolenmany pieces of me away, selfishly for you;meanwhile I […]

She moves.The earth bends.Stars tremble.No one asks permission. Bone-deep quiet,then a roarthat splits the sky. Fire in her chest,ice in her veins.She does not wait.She is the waiting. 1

I inhale…  The ache rises before the air. Slow.  Deliberate. Each heartbeat presses against the walls of myself.  I grind inward,   friction of longing against longing unreturned,   a motion without release. I taste the weight of devotion unshared.  Bitter.  Sweet.  Necessary. I fold into the quiet…  I breathe…   Slow.   Slow.   Slow…As if the rhythm itself might hold me together. The world moves on, oblivious…   I exist here,   kneaded,   sifted,   pressed  by […]

In English class,my fingers found your curlssoft,springy,unfairly beautiful. I told you it wasn’t rightfor a boy to have better curls than me.You laughed,and suddenly the roomfelt friendly. We kept circling each other thereglances,half-grins,an almost-friendshipthat thought it had time. You wrote in my yearbook,we should hang out sometime.We smiled about it.We didn’t. Still, I like that […]

When evening lifts the silver from the sky, The moon ascends where waking voices cease. It gathers all the fragments left by day, And clothes the restless earth in borrowed peace. When evening crowns the silence with the moon, I lift my eyes where only dreamers climb. One ancient face keeps watch above the world, […]