romeo to my ophelia--
tell me we aren't written
in the same story
yet by the same hand
our fate is death
as you discern vocations
not up to you
decide
but not because of me
god no, not for me--
before i make a playlist
with your initial
as the only human i know
with cola on his bathroom counter
just another sip
i miss you
even though we barely met.
Aug 20, 2025
Aug 20, 2025 at 5:36 PM UTC
the beach in your shoes
and smoke braided into your hair
the fireflies fly right into your palm
the fireflies became you
after i held you
in your neon pink fleece
crying in my arms as i held back the salt
but why would i want to?
when we miss each other too much
to not live and love again
in october?
Jul 7, 2025
Jul 7, 2025 at 11:07 PM UTC
proposed with an unwashed glove,
i said yes every time.
we'd do it again & again...
just for fun, or maybe more.
said if you were the king
then that would make me your queen--
always have been.
i believed you.
i wish that we could do it again,
a little rain never hurt anybody.
May 2, 2025
May 2, 2025 at 12:05 AM UTC
bruised my knuckles
knocking on your door
for so long
you wouldn't answer
but i was the one
who had the spare key
all along
and you knew it, too
Apr 29, 2025
Apr 29, 2025 at 10:50 PM UTC
won't listen to the songs
for they might make me call you.
that isn't the problem
but the possibility that you wouldn't want me to.
a dozen bells
could they possibly be you?
of course not, it's just that
'THERE IS A PERSON AT YOUR GARDEN'
the neighborhood cat
that occasionally makes the most beautiful bread
won't you just call...
so that i wouldn't have to
even if it's to say one word?
even if the word is no?
Apr 27, 2025
Apr 27, 2025 at 6:42 PM UTC
there's a house where the basement you almost drove us into used to be. the night you'd skip songs that were almost over. if i were one of them, would you let me play through the end?
night shadowy shades of grayish green, flashes of red across your face, a fist always close to your chin. always beautiful even when you shouldn't be.
the sound of you moving is enough to get me going. fabric on fabric like distant music only i can hear.
suddenly your face is everywhere and nowhere. in cars that look like yours but aren't. strangers now familiar features, head-turners and double-takers. it's always been you, even when it wasn't. even when i didn't know.
Apr 14, 2025
Apr 14, 2025 at 10:50 PM UTC
i was looking at those photos, too
only i was me instead of you.
sitting at the dinner table,
leg on the chair the way mom doesn't like.
grayness of the day fueling my need
to bend towards the sun & take you with me.
but you're just there, in faded photos
of yellow hallways & broken jars of horseradish, scattered into bits across an icy floor.
you're right where i left you
& you're always right here.
Apr 5, 2025
Apr 5, 2025 at 10:41 PM UTC
you kissed the back of my neck
i grazed the divets in your palm--
doughy with cold sweat in a white t-shirt
you asked me to tell you
what i want
using only one word--
you...us.
thick scent of incandescent light
escaped me to intoxicate you again--
it was a bad dream because it wasn't real
Mar 30, 2025
Mar 30, 2025 at 11:23 AM UTC
if i cannot tell you
how i feel
then i'll say it through
poems i'm not sure you'll ever read
Mar 27, 2025
Mar 27, 2025 at 10:15 PM UTC