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I Grew Up So Well
I may be up at 2 a.m. and it may be because I finished editing a short story I’ve been working on for a year and I may have just submitted it to my university’s literary journal so I may … Continue...
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Tura Lura
A chair that rocks but doesn’t squeak and lulls me to wonderland. A skylight for the moon to watch my dreams that leave in daylight. As she sings to me tura lura and I go to sleep in her arms …...
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Porches Are For Brownie
I’m all for smilingbut that woman is baring her teeth at me.Why, Giada? Why? They…sparkle…And Ina, I know that Francewith its shops and street corners, berets and baguettesis enchantingbut why must you...
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Champa
If words were fragrant my poems would smell like champa flowers. Heady, deep and sweet, they smell like – The moment I knew I would grow up My daydreams of adventure The dark room I adopted in my...
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Snow Globe
I want to rummage through stacks of books with you. Dirty, musty books so when we rustle their pages we choke with joy. I want to sit on the floor, legs crossed and pile adventures in my lap. You’ll...
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Home
No feeling matches this stirring in my bed, expecting to be at school then opening my eyes and…home. Where every moment feels slowed down a bubbled sanctuary from the world as nothing touches me but...
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An Ode to a Pencil
Silver-grey linesbecome wisps, spiritslike seagull wings in flightcapturing impermanentimperfectrushes of ideas, whichto me are more stunning than final drafts. You are worth morethan bubbles on answer...
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Skin
Yesterday, my poetry professor asked if my “write” tattoo was part of the Skin project by Shelley Jackson from 2004. When I explained that I would’ve been 11 years old in 2004, so my tattoo didn’t stem...
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I Was Someone Else Before
I’ve been thinking about the soul a lot lately. My poetry professor tells us not to write about the soul because he doesn’t know what a soul is — “Nobody knows what a soul is.” As much as I absolutely...
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Sad Banana
Imagine: A rain stick swishes softly in the background. A girl performs an interpretive dance involving a lot of stretching, then balling up on the ground, then stretching, then rolling around. Then...
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