They say wishes do come true. Create an idea that dreams are real. That secrets can become reality.   If I told you my dreams would you listen? They are loud like a heartbeat punctured by heartache, weeping a swallows song   Will you take my secrets? Hold them in your hand like an injured […]

    A gurgle cleaves through silence Saccharin liquid fills your throat.   Drown in the handkerchief as it suffocates, muffling vapid gasps covered by chartreuse.   The clicking of the clock loud to your ears, as worn brass reflects like a mirage in your panicked state.   Lapis merges with amethyst as bruises form. […]

  My grip on the wheel slipped. The car spun out of control as the night pressed in like bruising hands. The hollowness in my chest expanded. Hate bled to hurt then to heavy. Heavy, like my foot on the pedal, out of control, reckless. Dangerous, dark, daunting, ready to succumb. Lead filled my limb, […]

The chair was plush against her rear as she sat. Its pillowed back soft along clenched muscles. Sinewy arms trail from an oblique chest, the mirror an offensive reminder of the doll on the other-side.   The reflection pictured cherry tainted cheeks marred by grooves of hilarity. The supple flesh curdled lightly with the separation […]

I want everything   I want to devour you. I want to be that cliché, the moth to a flame. I want tumultuous, always guessing never sure, untamed.     I want everything   I want gentle kisses, a slow brush of lips. I want limbs intertwined, to be pressed hip to hip. I want […]

Eyes rimmed in red, I grasp the pencil and etch out your name.   Ridges that form the smooth yellow wood echo the heartbeats vibrating my chest. Slow, steady, predictable.   A contradiction to the paper that bleeds lead into branches; bent and distorted like the fluid skating down my cheeks.   Makeup an oil […]