someone tossed the towel in the quiet of the forest morning if a tree gives up in a forest while no one is watching does it make a sound? does it even fall? or will pride glue its branches to the sky standing vindictevely though…

Get a rope! We can climb down to virgin sand never to escape again then climb back up this jagged cliff. Back to life!

being buried is end to most things but not really come back years later and see how everything grew without you, see how you paid tribute to the very dust that spat man out in the beginning you may have been buried but things still…

I never wandered enough through you, mostly keeping away from dryly lit lanes even under the hot summer sun,  except A couple of times when i wanted to ruin my name in your honour, in your lanes I cajoled myself to collect faded paper tickets…

“Will you marry me?” he said. Nearly dead on two of three, I replied… “Can I think about it?” They wanted me to speak. They wanted me to hear. They didn’t want me to feel their fucking, those two doctors, local cop, and a politician’s…

I was on the road today city-to-city with ample time due to detours and errands spent driving through smaller, rural communities as well as city and suburban neighborhoods It is summer the weather good leaving me puzzled, in dismay passing well-stocked parks equipment filled playgrounds…

When the bandits left Sambisa, they left a sign for us to remember that they were here longer than we had thought. Even in Eden, it is difficult to forget that the jacket my little brother was obsessed with, was the sign left for our…

The Only Time My Mind Goes Blank is With Your Hands On My Hips, Descending   There is a moment before your mouth descends, the pulse of breath against tender flesh,  when my body craves for you to mold your name into my skin to…

No sleep for hours on end, Inches away from penning an ode on my bed, Haven’t even risen to stretch and bend, Typing away with one hand on my head. My eyes burning, rimmed red, But I keep going, I keep fighting, Only a mere…

You walked into the living room and flat lined by the chair We had to let the medics know that you were in despair They found a pulse, you tracked your eyes and squeaked a last Goodbye Before you faded out again through the lights…