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Conversation Heart Confessional

There is something cathartic about talking into nothingness. Into something that always gives you an answer, unsatisfactory as it may be.At school, we talk in dialects: sarcasm, dramatics, good student, jokes, and suspiciously angsty profundities. There are some days when I say so much of everything else that...

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Turtles, Competitive Contests & Publications, Late Luminescence Going Forward

photo: turtles at the Santa Anita Westfield Mall Promenade in Arcadia, CAHello, hello, hello!No piece in this post ...

origin

Middle, origin, we all start at (0,0)and extrapolate outwards, Heartbeats and limbs and splayed hair on our ...

rose hips, balconies, hearts.

Girls and balconies, boys and drain pipesRosebud lips and red rose hips.A finger flutters to softly tuck her hair ...

Taylor Swift, A Good Dream

Don’t mind me too much--I aspire one day to be a good memory.It’s a sad dream.some nights I wake up,And curl around ...

Hallowed Halos, Hollow be Thy Name

I don’t know if I believe in angels anymore.I poured Cupid into paper wings and when the origami butterfly didn’t fly ...

Apple Skin

I wish for apple skin sunsets for you,and may the fairies bless you with blueberry stars,a bruised hue of battered ...

halfway, wherever you are

half an hour, half a bite, half a life,sometimes I feel half full of lies.oh, i haven't told you about that before?i ...

The Big Things

I’m tired of writing poems about big things. Instead, I’ll write about you and I, not as a shard of ...

Let Us Write

For so many years, through elementary school, middle school, and even high school, we've been taught poetry as haikus ...

mo(u)rning peaches

Night spills the ink of a dayground to our bonesrooted in place under our eyelids.the smell of ink addictive,and ...

Little Love

Her mouth is on my cheekand I smile hello at her cherubic face, roaming eyescompletely unaware of what kisses meanbut ...

Tiers

A collaboration with Yellow Sweater (Zinnia!) and my brother :)~~~“LET THEM EAT CAKE!” curse the sweet toothed ...

incarnate

fun fact: I love drowning,in metaphor. A metamorphosis of breath, and the air swims in water until I have none left to ...