Off prompt/free write How cruel is it that ashes are all I have left of you to hold on to. And no matter my grip you will still slip right through my fingers.

Creature Feature #2   Eating popcorn in front of a black-and-white television, my fingers drenched in melted butter and iodized salt.   The Bride of Dracula has made her fatal mistake, while Frankenstein’s monster   only wants acceptance from a crowd intent on his eradication….

O dainty and dignified Warthog i see you every morning at University City Walking your concrete red carpet not quite tiptoe but en pointe You’re the Natural Nutcracker for the Pennsylvania Ballet  

Oh, how I remember learning to make fudge with Mom. Crisp Autumn night, no school the next morning. Perfect time to mess up the kitchen. Her favorite saucepan awaits ingredients on the stovetop. Beautiful brown label box, with white and yellow writing. It says Cocoa…

We call her Mama Squirrel because all these little babies we know came from her Every night we sit out wait for her to show mangy patches and swollen eye “Hey Mama” we call and throw her a handful of raw peanuts Some she eats…

Circumstances can change you for the better Or upend your life Either way Flex and roll and Be done with it All seasons must end No matter how long they seem Life will be better  

Light at the end of the tunnel How cliché I look, there’s no ray of sunlight Nothing to direct my path I keep trodding though In hope to see this light The journey is hard But I keep going The thought of light Quickens my…

It amazes me that the world is so full of contradictions I’m sorry, I meant life is full of contradictions I’m sorry, I mean living I mean me Me living life Me living Me alive   Me alive is the biggest oxymoron I can think…

Last night I had a strange dream. We had moved into a cabin lost in the woods. And as I kissed your hands on our pillow to say goodnight you asked: Are we still queer when there’s noone around?

You seemed perfect on the outside. Landed it big in Hamilton, In the Heights, and in A Star is Born. Engaged to your Hamilton co-star Jasmine. Life on top with a white picket fence of a promising future. One night a TikTok video surfaced you…