Form Poem

We all need to believe in something whether it’s true or not whether you remember or not   She didn’t know what to believe anymore was it a lie or the truth was it real or an overthought   Either way it’s what she believed…

19~7

Why can’t I love you? (i miss you when you’re gone) What gnaws at my insides? (it’s so quiet here without you) How can I be so peaceful? (all your things lay scattered in perfect order just as you left them) Is that my music…

Prompt 11/H9- Into the Wild

Good morning kitten, it’s time for your leash. Out in the world, we’ll see all the trees You can climb them but don’t run off too quickly We’ll both get stuck. Fine, you can go a little further. Good morning kitty, I’ll be ready in…

The Goldfinch*

In the death of winter, The goldfinches fly To the little feeder in the big pine. Some might say, Most likely to eat. Others may say, to socialize and mate. I listen respectively. Smiling in secret. For I know in my heart, The goldfinch is…

The Mushroom Suit

The Mushroom Suit   Now I lay me down to rest This mushroom suit will look the best   They put me only three feet down To leave me here then went to town   I had to die I was quite old There’s no…

Hour ten: Elegy: The labels I’ve left behind

Maybe I’m just some asshole Gen-Z PacMan swallowing words and avoiding my own ghosts, or maybe my identity is not something repressed but grown like hair or fingernails, trimmed into shapes that make sense, repainted and groomed, changed with the times. My genders stack like…

An Unlikely Father

Whilst everyone is happy That she got a perfect partner to spend her life with The father is upset Because he is going to take the reason for his living away from him Whilst everyone is rejoicing That she got a perfect partner to look…

Guilty Pleasure (hour 9)

I have this tiny, little, guilty pleasure. Sometimes, I don’t look where I’m going, and I make men walk around me. You see, it’s funny because they walk right through me instead They cut me off, and I apologize. They cheat on me, and I…