in the works

  • Real Person

    sometimes I forget you’re a real person that you’re out there somewhere breathing all the same air evading my lungs your asphyxiating hands having robbed. but yet have such a hard time casting aside, can’t let go of the past two feet that stand on the still solid ground beneath the very same one that… Read more

  • Abuser Mentality

    I love you so much I could kill you all in an effort to keep you I know it’s my fault my fear my doubt my unresolved trauma making me act out fuck I need you to keep my heart beating the stakes are too high to indulge any freedom what if this time you… Read more

  • silence is safest one might think but somehow wrong every time so how do I wire my mouth shut and stop the tears from streaming the voices in my head are back and it takes all I have to keep from crumbling nothing I say is ever correct or enough or appropriate for the context… Read more

  • at the eve of twilight

    as seen in Currents 2018 available for purchase on amazon silence slipping over mountaintops the grass losing its glean of promised tomorrows one last deep sigh of life makes its great escape bittersweet cries melt into brilliant skies the grass losing its glean of promised tomorrows tomorrows that pray for another tomorrow’s tomorrow bittersweet cries… Read more

  • stuck between a migraine and a heartbreak and the break of dawn is never far enough away in this cell built of cinder block walls and mirrors suffocatingly close to the chest I keep on begging to stop rising with every catching breath what the actual fuck is the point of this life I am… Read more

  • it is not a shock to me that I lie here all alone once again surrounded by the wreckage created on my own as much as it pains my heart to hear the truth lining the pathway out to sullenly rely upon gracious helping hands abound the only obvious conclusion that I burned them all… Read more