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How to Lose Someone

PART 1: Keep the writings she left that you never read because you cannot bear that she might have been mad and you don't know if you can...

Cult Rules

I wrote the following in a writing group to the prompt If you started a commune or a cult, what would it be like, what would the rules...

Writing Group 17 May

PROMPT: A PLACE I VISIT OFTEN ice drip condensation opposites of cold greeting heat of day the way I meet you a chemical reaction vaporic...

Musings on cosmic dissonance

1. How am I supposed to have dreams now? Your void is contagious This black hole you left me holding just keeps getting bigger Eating at...

January

Shift and shiver Ice cold quiver Brisk boot shuffle Sidewalk minesweep

Past Imperfect

I avoid her like eye contact; like a sore spot; like an unwanted conversation or the incongruous hulk and heft and odor of an elephant in...

Water

When it rises And feels like Maybe tears Maybe tide Maybe the ebb and flow That will never end Stuck in perpetual cycle of Swell And Lack...

Reflections on a Still Summer Day Without AC

(trigger warning: sexual violence) I fan myself and it sounds like violence in my ear Each puff like your sweaty breath dripping with...

Spring/Summer

(SPRING) Nothing caresses me but the wind (these days) It moves over me and I am silent and still (-Bliss-) (SUMMER) There is a...

Carcass

She is popping into my head lately (as she does this time of year). It always takes me a moment to realize why; that the anniversary is...

Terrain

I am told I am beautiful I am told to have a nice day I am told I look good I am told I am sexy I am told daaaaaaaaaaamn I am told...

Hiccups and Piss (or the dubious art of drunk writing)

I love to open Notes and write what pops into my head when I am drunk. But what’s even better is discovering these notes after the fact,...