A mother loves the face she’s meant to love I’ve heard

The cracks and furrows and dips and dimples

I wondered if you loved me more when I was small and my skin was 

Soft and smooth and unblemished with no pain or fear

My rolls were dumpling folds and my eyes crinkled in a way you thought was adorable not ugly.

A monster loves only the ones she’s hurt I fear 

How I wished for your love when I was g...

the next day on the news

we will hear about the bus crash in california

we will not know of the mother who hugged her baby to her chest

the old couple that kissed for the last time

the young man that kept his eyes wide open

the small girl that flew into the window

we will see the numbers

and our day will carry on just a bit more dampered....

The boiled down

curdles of my heart

ready to be molded

Into something you’re not.

The fox in my sheets

The succubus on my shoulder

There’s nothing left to lose

If I’ve lost it all already....

effulgence indulgence

I’ll be your wallflower

You be my quotidian piece.

I knew a boy who was an artist

He drew my freckles like stars

My curls like silk

My eyes like windowpanes

To his world

He loved me until there was nothing left

But ashes and a smoking paintbrush....

Promise me that you’ll get it for me.

You’re going out, I know you can remember me while you’re gone.

Promise me that you’ll say it for me.

You’ll see her there, maybe you’ll see her face in mine.

Promise me that you’ll remember to say goodnight before you go.

You’re going to sleep, but I’ll lay awake if you don’t.

Promise me to remember when I tell it.

You’re going to hear me, after all; eyes...

This is not a poem, more an introspective. I’m trying something new :)

Dear Whoever You Are,

If you never do anything for the rest of your life, just know that you have saved one.

I was biking to the bridge on my old, red bike. It still has the scars of when I yanked the training wheels off as a little eight-year old, desperate to be biking for real. I remember tracing my hands over the scars....

Luke’s mouth was burning.

He closed his eyes and pressed his palms against his eyes, relishing in the cold darkness for a moment as he leaned his forearms on the steering wheel. Everything felt dark and gloomy. The liquor store was ringing again, and Luke didn’t have the willpower to put it on hold.

With a deep sigh of guilt, he started up his car, the rickety old vehicle churning to life, headl...

“I think I just met the happiest person in the world,” Levi grumbled, slumping back in his chair. Maria, his roommate, glanced up from the coffee she was stirring with surprise.

“Yeah? Who’s that?” She asked, handing him a cup. He nodded curtly to her in appreciation and took a sip. The liquid burned hot against his tongue, completely washing any flavor away. He grimaced and drank anyway before a...

I stared out into the abyss yawning beneath me, trying to lose myself in the endless void as my horse nickered, pushing its wet snout into my palm. The statue next to me stood stoically still, light patterning across its crown as rose spread from the rising sun and across the sky, bathing the rounded peaks in gleaming light. I dismounted, still feeling a little detached, and ran my hand across its...

He was walking down Sunset Boulevard when he saw her for the first time.

At first, his eyes skipped over her, for she was just another stranger walking through the department stores, one that would walk past him again and again until time ran to a stop and the stores would close their windows in fear of the shoppers drifting outside. There was no reason to pay any attention to her tall figure, or...