i was overcome by it without warning. what started as slow and gradual had somehow become unstoppable. it became too much to bear - so i buried it away ( Read more... )

for as long as i can remember i have felt like a sinking ship ( Read more... )

let us awake to a new day

a new day in which we are more brave
more alive
more powerful
than we are in this day

and on that day
let us do the things
that we are not able to
today.

we find ourselves ( Read more... )

surrounded like an igloo by the scent of bourbon and cigarette butts i awoke, watching my breath in the cold crisp air. i had no idea how i ended up asleep face down on my porch, but i didn't care nearly as much about that as i did the piercing sunlight exacerbating my headache. i stood shaking and went inside more to avoid the sunlight than to ( Read more... )

they had revolved around each other for years, passing infrequently by each other, never close enough to touch but always feeling the pull of the other. as though standing on separate shores they gazed across a body of water taking in the wonder of finding something so beautiful, so close... they had but only to wade into the waters and swim to ( Read more... )

things are tiny
in my tiny world.
i look around
and all is small.

there
and there
and there
and there,
just another wall.

to make it more aloof,
a roof.

i long
for something
more.

i have longed
for it
before.

she wondered where i was ( Read more... )

summer sputters,
not for all,
but there are others
who'd agree...

summer's sputter,
not for all,
is something other
than this breeze...

summer, sputter...
allow fall,
for nature's mother
must now feed.

i found myself lying next to you on the grass. we were soon surrounded by snow. this was a dream. i had not seen you in ages... we did not have to tell each other that we had missed each other ( Read more... )