Tacky, red leather seats of the old rusted Cadillac   glimmered like my mother’s smile. Young and fresh, unstoppable. With her bright red lipstick, scrunched brown hair, and happiness apparent in her light blue eyes. Her personality is splattered across the photo. The light in her eyes, and her soul, is undeniable. But now, her […]

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 […]

“ do you have a boyfriend? “   he asked & i said “no, but i’m talking to a girl”   then he told me a guy broke my heart but a woman can’t give me *he clapped his hands together* what a man can   & i wish i had said   ” no, […]

I like to go by the water To think To watch the waves Rather than sink The sky so blue And a little pink Makes it easier Not to think

A glistening tear runs down the sun’s face as she comes to the cold realization that while she was preoccupied being the light of everyone’s life, she didn’t have enough sunshine to light up her own. 

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 […]