Apart of nature, I shed the skin I have outgrown, Refusing to be restricted by things that have lost their purpose.
Read Morenestled in the soft bit of skin between her neck and jaw,
it’s sprouted just out of her range of vision [. . .]
Read MoreThere is only an arm’s length between us,
enough to see straight into your brown eyes.
My whole life has been roots and cherry picking, digging myself up before I was ripe.
Read MoreDouble dutch girls, we never did learn how to be apart.
Read MoreMy crisis of writing and publishing stems from writing the darkest and most horrific parts of my life, without having processed them, publishing in soon-defunct literary magazines with little to no audience, and getting eight likes on social media as payment. Is this what I should turn myself inside out for?
Read MoreThe Quarantine Poems is a series of poetry written durning the covid-19 pandemic lockdown, available in text and in audio.
The first instalment, On Yearning, is authored by Sarah Lawrence.
Read MoreDust motes drift like ashes / perhaps an old dream / perhaps you
Read MoreThe collection begins now, a digging / the excavation of her pomegranate hips.
Read MoreNow, as I am one year and seven months from thirty, I understand the infinity of growing old. I imagine myself as recycled clay. Formed into this year, grabbed by another and shaped into that one—but where is the kiln? Where is the sun that dries the grapes?
Read MoreI still think about the endocrinologist lifting my shirt to see how my ribs were jutting out of the skin.
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