picture this: i'm 11.
new macy's two-piece bathing suit.
i like the colors.
you hate my stomach.
summer.
"why can't i wear my new suit?"
"because nobody wants to see a beached whale."
i do not wear it to the beach.
i dive into our golden lake,
your tongue-blade
muted among the surf.
i am beautifully alone,
but i do not wish to be.
the silence is enough of a gift.
you say "beached whale"
and expect it to hurt,
and it does. but not how you wanted.
i am a beached whale. 16 years later
a creature only meant to observe and love,
i was pushed out of the water,
to drown in your desert air.
i am learning to swim again.
i will break your harpoon.
Mar 18, 2025
Mar 18, 2025 at 8:40 AM UTC
your fingers have
the perfect crater knuckles,
winding with curves of understanding,
soft ridges aligned.
the gentle embrace of these masterpieces
wrapped around my palm (one inch smaller than yours)
reminds my heart
of your indefinite complexities.
those eyes,
finest mahogany,
textured with your past,
connect our souls, braided.
you are frozen coffee
with an espresso shot.
you are the youthful spring breeze,
cooling my skin to the touch.
thank you for teaching me how to love again;
squeezing me in the dark.
i am truly yours
and you are truly mine.
Mar 21, 2021
Mar 21, 2021 at 8:30 PM UTC
to my love who’s away:
there are fireworks here.
we can smell sulfur in the air.
my skin is tan now.
the leaves outside my window flutter in the warm maritime air.
do you remember when we would wake up to seagulls?
your eyes looked like the sunrise.
i miss waking up in your arms.
Jun 23, 2019
Jun 23, 2019 at 1:36 PM UTC
i’m sorry but i
can’t help to look for his eyes
buried within yours
Dec 10, 2018
Dec 10, 2018 at 10:43 PM UTC
i watched your warning apparition
consume your earthen eyes.
your warning apparition,
your exposed shadow,
the slowness of your breath.
this spirit inside your chest,
ever expanding,
constricting the blood in your lungs.
pale, skinny face.
you could never get enough sleep,
left your clothes on the floor.
can you breathe now that you’ve left?
has the fog trapped in your ribs dissapated?
has my absence made it easier to fill your lungs with love for someone else?
you told me that you wanted to save me from the emminent warning apparition.
you said it would make you mean.
make you silent.
make me hate every cloud you’d ever seen
because it gave you the wrong idea.
i may have acted impulsively
in dragging my knees through the gravel,
but it was only because
i thought you would see my kneecaps,
scarred and bleeding,
and lift me from the ground.
i can’t walk down congress street.
i see the warning apparition
sitting on the bench where i sat,
watching you sprint to me,
arms spread because you got out of work.
i see it laying in my bed.
the left side.
wishing that just once it would haunt my dreams,
so i could truly feel your sleeping embrace one last time.
i can’t take a shower.
i’m washing your face.
i can’t go to work.
you aren’t home to come back to.
your warning apparition
is not your fault.
nobody asks to be haunted.
not by a truly vengeful ghost.
Oct 31, 2018
Oct 31, 2018 at 12:52 AM UTC
the future still burns
bright in your honey pool eyes
please don’t let me drown
Oct 13, 2018
Oct 13, 2018 at 9:56 PM UTC
1. you are warm.
2. you are so gentle with me.
3. your eyes are of earth,
4. and the garden in my chest flourishes.
5. you are having *** while it’s raining,
6. and i have never more truly made love.
7. you take the water out of my lungs,
8. and i am no longer drowning.
9. laying on your chest is being at home.
10. you make me want to wake up,
11. just so i can study your sleeping mouth.
12. our souls belong near one another.
13. i love it when you drive my car,
14. one hand on my thigh.
15. you smile and i squint,
16. for you have the light of a dying star.
17. we are both supernovas,
18. we burn brightly,
19. and even after i smolder i’ll be holding your hand.
20. i will intertwine my fingers with yours into the afterlife.
21. there is nothing better than being close to you.
22. you have handed me a life vest
23. and shown me how to float.
24. i love it when you snore,
25. and you love me more than a fresh pack of camel blues.
26. i have never once doubted that
27. your love for me is true,
28. and every day you make me see
29. the rest of my life.
Oct 1, 2018
Oct 1, 2018 at 11:12 AM UTC
i am a vessel of unreturned love.
i am leaking.
a crack in the bottom,
i drip out more than i fill.
unnamed faces floating through my bed,
and my car,
and unnamed homes.
attempting to fix my broken stature
by sealing the cracks with clay,
solid in the moment,
but nothing more than temporary.
only you can weld the hole.
only you hold the tools.
i hope you can pass the torch.
Jun 22, 2018
Jun 22, 2018 at 12:02 AM UTC
i miss your growing ribcage
pressed against my back.
i miss drowning in your eyes.
i miss your aching presence
knitted into my bones
and i miss your fingers on my skin.
you were my glass half empty, but i could always make it full.
i miss our slow coffee mornings
when we couldn’t separate
our intertwined fingers.
i miss skipping class just to be with one another.
i miss your platinum tones.
you are pine trees (resilient)
you are headlights (warm)
you are dasies (vibrant)
you are home.
May 24, 2018
May 24, 2018 at 8:55 AM UTC
it may be over
********* i do love you
please come back to bed
May 21, 2018
May 21, 2018 at 1:44 AM UTC