Betrayal

Again, I turn the word in my hands,its edges worn, yet sharp.To be all but a tray—an offering, a vessel,laid bare at the feastwhere no invitation waits.

Crushed Lavender

I used to greet the desert sun mid-summer and beaming vital as daybreak swelled and golden by noon

Honeysuckle and Heat

I want to write a poem compare the dew of your lips on a wind-swept summer morning to honeysuckle

Write to me

I don't usually add disclaimers to my poems, nor should art necessarily necessitate a caption - just a captive audience, if you're lucky. HOWEVER, this poem is special to me, and if my therapist didn't convince me this poem could help a lot of people, than I probably would have kept it in my personal … Continue reading Write to me

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I miss you like the embers  miss the heat of a flame after they rest on eastern wind 

Lovesick

It feels like one must experience romantic love in a silo  Heartbreak permeates society  hands grip chests and pace paneled floors more often than joy is chirped beneath willows with songbirds

Moon Lust

I never thought I would choose to describe  the moon’s allure, her soft presence as a shard

The Choice is Mine

I've decided I'm no longer going to suffer I'm done with pain I'm over grief I've suffered enough

Death by Seedling

I feel excavated. Like a buoyant log atop a sea stampede, shafted from the earth and cursed by the sun to bleach.

Enterprise Inc., LLC

They throw us to the wolves before we even gasp Our first breath.   Carnage straight from the womb a feast of supple fat   They use honey to suckle on our pride   well, my Dear, this bosom has been milked dry.