Why is it that grandmas always find the ugliest clothes to wear?

On our date I wore a cheesy sweatshirt filled with floral embroidered graphics and kind words like “sweet” and “precious”.

My tank top had gotten soaked after an incident involving the unfortunate timing of my grandma’s backyard sprinkler.

“You know you never actually told me where we’re going.” I told her in the passenger seat ...

My heart does thump

my skin does burn

When the shadow of a man stands

his presence adjourned

1 second he’s there

10 minutes he’s not

On the nights that the air

is stagnant and hot

Bending ‘round corners

lurking in hallways

These dreams of mine

They’re just a phase

A hint of a attention

I shouldn’t pay

To the being that haunts me before every day...

Humans destroy what they don’t understand

Small brains get frustrated so their fear expands

That’s why I feel for spiders and rats

Because they wouldn’t be killed

if they were nice furry cats

I’m a witch

I must be

Because who in their right mind cares for scales and teeth

For creatures beneath

for beasts unleashed

Or for those with eight feet

If I must be burned because compassion becam...

You smile at the deer eating grass

By the underpass

You smile at the dead ones

On the highway too

Beauty does not stop at death to you

Hyphea spread, mushrooms fruit, on a body used to life and pursuit.

The earth enriched so tree spouts shoot

Dark and fresh for native roots

Death must come for life anew

P.S. + E.M....

It’s easy to get lost in the underworld

Fingers snap then sins unfurl

Screams and giggles from dead little girls

Whose mothers and fathers had insults to hurl

Proof that innocence won’t elude evil

The worst can happen to the youngest people

Lies, dead ends, paths are whirled

It’s easy to get lost in the underworld...