Poems

It All Comes Out Whispers

There’s a sound Of pounds That pound Around But to you It’s blue Paint dabbed off the wall With a cotton ball Everyone is crying into a...

Just let me Decide who to be Perhaps I’ll just be nothing Wouldn’t that be something?

There’s a Black Dog Who lives on my lawn He doesn’t have a collar So I guess he’s mine I yell and scream I speak gently I throw garbage...

The world lets out a sigh On the day I die But is that Thank goodness or goodbye?

Keep love Find it Leave it in molecules Spread it in the dirt Shout it Or let it sit Under your tongue It’s soft and brittle Hard and...

Write like you’re talking to me You said Like we are in bed The sheets our shield The pillows rocks that block the waves Anything could...

Books pages Float from the windows Like unmade origami swans Shot out of the sky I gather them My stories dead limbs Like firewood To...

Look for me Look for me Where shadows end in light Look for me Look for me Past the beautiful In the blurry between I space out the...

Loaves of pine Crumble to bark crumbs Blazing honeycomb coals Hold the sound of fire licked bees tongues They’re in there In the holes...

I want to take the night And erase the black So you can’t see its light Reflect your heartache back