Poetry

Rain claws down the windows, its rhythm a litany of hunger, and the candles spit smoke as though choking on the weight of their own...

There is nothing you could've done to change what they did to you. Read that again. Read it until your throat closes on the guilt that...

I love you like a rotten dog. Like something half-dead and howling beneath the porch, matted fur, ribs sharp enough to cut God, eyes...

we both taste like the grief of growing. your family crumbles and you crumble with it. i pick flowers and i miss you. i'll never kiss you...

I confess I thought of running away those nights when I asked a crowd want to come with me tonight? on a quest for another world where...

But don't speak of gardens. Don't speak of the moon. Don't speak of roses or the sea. Speak of what you know. Speak of the thing that...

my pen leaks your name in ways my mouth cannot prayer on the canvas question to the masses they know you as my fleeting muse words...

Don't tear my name like old white cotton sheets Don't blame my name like broken porcelain embellishment Don't rip my lips to feel cherry...

I come undone at the sight of the warm sun, but I fear I must go back inside to something familiar. I have shovels for hands, digging...

When I love something I will gorge it and store it in my innards and it will decompose and rot inside of me and poison me from the inside...

I'm still hidden from you, still obscured by a deathly hue. Every night I pray for forgiveness, Forgive me for the sins I have committed,...

Black was the colour of my hair the day you asked my name Turning twenty-two, running on coffee and poetry Bought the lies until what's...

This is the house that built me and I'm going to burn it down This is the river I crawled from and I refuse to drown here And bless the...

Once again, I find myself sickened and distraught drowning in oceans of impurity suffocating amidst sheets of self-destruction. A...

One day I will stop all this yearning, but for now it is everywhere. I don't know what to do with old love so I stuff it in my mouth...