When I wake up in the morning- I cuddle my girlfriend. She is always there by my side. She is always there in the same spot, in the same side, with the same face. She always has the same smell, she always gravitates towards my warmth, she always pushes me to the edge, it’s a queen size bed but with her it feels like a full, I wouldn’t trade it for a thing, the consistency of waking up with someone...

𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚍𝚊𝚢𝚜 𝚠𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚍𝚊𝚛𝚔

𝚌𝚕𝚘𝚞𝚍𝚜 𝚑𝚞𝚐𝚐𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚔𝚢

𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝚜𝚞𝚖𝚖𝚎𝚛 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚏𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚜 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚌𝚊𝚜𝚝

𝓭𝓪𝔂𝓼 𝓫𝓵𝓾𝓻𝓻𝓮𝓭

𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚏𝚏 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚎 𝚊𝚒𝚛 𝚜𝚖𝚞𝚍𝚐𝚎𝚍 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚠𝚊𝚕𝚔 𝚌𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚔𝚜

𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚐𝚗𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚜𝚘𝚞𝚛𝚎𝚍

𝚗𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝 𝚊 𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚕𝚎𝚜𝚜 𝚟𝚘𝚒𝚍

𝚠𝚎 𝚏𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑𝚝 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚊𝚗𝚢𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗�...

The world is spinning and I am standing still

It keeps going without my concern

If I act, if I leap, if I trust what will be there?

Spinning and spinning I try to see where my leap will land

I stay and I wait for just the right moment.

I see it and stumble and fail to leave the ground

But I get back up and I see.

See the world was waiting for me

I have to learn to get back up to be strong

Stren...

My eyes screw tighter

At the sound of his cries

I check my watch and realise the time

A whole 12 hours no wake in the night

Smile on my face tears in my eyes

Are we finally there?

Is my sleep now guaranteed?

When it comes night again

Will it repeat with ease?

When night comes again

A glint in his eyes

“Keep dreaming dad”

Cheeky little guy...

“ I’m not your nightmare Stacey!” Calup shouted as he shook Stacey awake. It was pitch dark at night the only light were the lightning reflections of a storm from Stacey’s bedroom window. She was kicking; and screaming, yelling get off of me!with her. eyes squeezed shut. she finally opened them when Calup stroked the back of her head. “It’s...

As I stare into your deep blue eyes I can see my future husband and I’m your future wife. I see all the joys of being loved by you in so many ways that intertwined with eternity and beyond comprehension,the look of love is very good on our love that we have for each other the unbreakable bond of pure true love. I love your smile your voice and your smell of your colongne reminds me of the love tha...

I would’ve done anything to find a way out

To leave the sterile walls behind

Every song, poem, form of art has been written about

This is just another in the line

What is feels like to be inside of the rubix cube

Difficult and complex to figure out

All the growth intended hard ‘lessons’ make you rude

Fill you up with doubt

The constant let down

The formidable journey

All to make you earthbound...

It was an ordinary Saturday morning when I decided it was time. I’m not sure what sparked the idea in my mind but I knew that if I sat at home drinking iced lattes and watching rom-coms with my mom that I would never accomplish my dream of being a photographer. I’d lived my whole life in the small town of Plainview, Nebraska. About a year ago, right after I graduated high school, I expressed my dr...

Eye of the volcano,

Open from the focal excavation

Site of it’s platformic base,

Pulses in energy, the green iris

Predicament glowing harshly

In dark and light rings around

Opaque Pupil: as it is deprecatingly

Named for the shards of tangible

Sediment it lets off into precious

Mining island earth dissolves

In visitation hands like igneous rock

But without glazed form as in ceramics:

Falling out c...

Once I measured motherhood by

Drop-offs in the mornings

Pick-ups in the afternoons

A million email reminders from teachers

Garbage day on tuesdays

Late start day on wednesdays

The pile of laundry that never goes down

Sleepless nights from colds and tummy aches

Now I measure motherhood by

The childhood summers my boys have left with me

11 summers of long car rides

11 summers of trips to places the...