you are in these bones, but they are not you.

  • hands like roots

    hands like roots

    I have not been a desperate thing, a clawing, needful thing, in a lifetime, this most recent timeline. I cannot call it repletion, truly, because I’ve never known the word, but I imagine this is close: a negotiation between my appetites and my love. And still the depth of it, that desperation, has sunk like Read more

  • no muse

    no muse

    Because the things I find myself hungry for are not yours to give. Read more

  • moving castle

    moving castle

    and there is art i will never see again no matter my stare, music my ears will find themselves deaf to. the threat is too great to bear, a groaning dam. i am built for the ages, meant to carry every stone and shadow collected. every dart and blade and blessing. of course my eyes Read more

  • Love/Language

    Love/Language

    My love language is a deaf mute. My love language shoulders mountains, smiling quietly, inwardly- a slowmoving idyll saturated from the soul out in private reverie. My love language is a home that sighs ageless relief under hands that have mended more than they’ve broken. My love language is pay attention. My love language is Read more

  • e’ry now an’ then

    e’ry now an’ then

    Sometimes I miss being a piece of shit, you know? Read more