I went to the desert in springtime A rain shower hit scalded earth and I imagined sizzling The cacti silently slurped All the dew of the...

cursed blood subjective wars detritus on muddied shores a microcosm faltering intentions rescinding a cavernous catharsis baby teeth and...

My mind feels like a tornado or rather, how I imagine it would feel to be surrounded by the vastness of one; which makes sense, I suppose...

Sometimes I feel my heartbeat in my hands and I remember that I am here and I am real and I am alive. Blood pumping, lungs circulating;...

Nobody told you that the walls would cave in, that sand castles weren’t permanent, that the tiny flag at the top doesn’t denote power but...

Naivety is a strength in youth for if not for naivety goals would not be possible. Children dream of aspects they wish to achieve. Do not...

We were driving through the forest late September, the aspen leaves turned lemon, rust, and scarlet, when we came upon a little country...

The wonder, the terror, the mixture of you The unleashed power you have yet to claim The seesaw of joy and sorrow you navigate Eerie...

You open your mouth, and some honeybees fly out. I’m anxious when they buzz, with their small, turbulent wings. My insanity stems from...

Call the witness to the stand; the jury wants to know how you hold peaches like a heartbeat, how it always tastes better when it’s been...

There’s a fire in my heart & it’s burning from the inside out. It’s like that Mary-Jane you ignite to forget the day— it chars your...

A safety net is not always safe, Falling back on someone is still a fall, A bruise can beat and batter you, Run you thin until you are...

My mother chopped off a snake’s head in the garage, a shovel her guillotine and with force a meaty slice sever and clang. She wiped her...

I was the girl of the altar call, knees bent and tears streaming, god’s chosen for memorizing Bible verses faster than the boys; the girl...

Last night, I spent hours, creating a poem. The diction, depicted a painting, of a child, being burned. By villagers who felt that the...

Sitting in the back seat I watch my mother pull our green 56’ chevy up over a curb Hypnotique and menthols sting my tongue Embers flicker...

Every day the drunk lies at the cross-road Between the Wal-Mart and the Costco On the side of the Arizona road The sun is a cupped...

it had to be filled with water in the early years the ocean left its ridge marks on every bluff and reached into each valley with a...

it had to be filled with water in the early years the ocean left its ridge marks on every bluff and reached into each valley with a...

I know life has ups and downs, Swings from high to low, but now… I feel stuck in limbo Hung in midair like a pendulum That has lost its...