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12h · 39
Locks | Haiku
LL 12h
I carry you like
old locks fastened to a bridge —
I unlock nothing
2025/074
13h · 29
Keys | Haiku
LL 13h
I carry you with
me — heavy keys to locks that
I no longer have
2025/073
14h · 36
Warmth | Haiku
LL 14h
silence, your silence
is not a void — it is a
warmth I come home to
2025/072
20h · 36
Muffle | Haiku
LL 20h
muffle every groan
and moan,
                     and whimper,
                                                 and sigh
with your mouth on mine
2025/071
23h · 135
Flower | Haiku
LL 23h
you only water
the plants when you need them to
flower and bear fruit
2025/070
Apr 25 · 54
Reclaim pt. II | Haiku
LL Apr 25
as long as the sea
ends up on top of meclaimed
inevitably
2025/069
Apr 23 · 75
Give | Haiku
LL Apr 23
what if the only
thing I can give you are the
things I leave behind
2025/068
Apr 23 · 48
Carelessly | Tanka
LL Apr 23
if you're the sea I'd
easily drown in — I am
the sea-beaten cliff
you can safely wonder from —
of carelessly jumping off
2025/067
Apr 23 · 58
Reclaim | Haiku
LL Apr 23
I saw you walk in—
to this place like an ocean
wave — reclaiming land
                                            (I'm the land)
2025/066
Apr 23 · 105
Cicada | Haiku
LL Apr 23
summer is the call
cicadas hum and chirp to —
I answer, find me
2025/065
Apr 21 · 53
Lose | Haiku
LL Apr 21
focusing on my
pain is how I lose the hand
I'm holding right now
2025/064
Apr 21 · 61
Meaning | Haiku
LL Apr 21
can life lose all its
meaning — and could there ever
be one without love?
2025/063
Apr 20 · 100
Bird | Tanka
LL Apr 20
joy would always leave
me like a bird that flew out
of its cage and — when
it came back knocking on the
glass — I wouldn't let it in
2025/062
Apr 13 · 317
Floodgates | Tanka
LL Apr 13
I don't tell you things
because explaining in length
things long brewing's like
standing at the floodgates of
a river as it empties
2025/061
Mar 26 · 81
Get | Free verse
LL Mar 26
if I have to kneel before your body
to get what I want — and
hear songs of quick shallow breaths —
soft praises — from your mouth agape
— no wonder they call it

a TEMPLE
2025/060
Mar 25 · 50
Stopped | Haiku
LL Mar 25
know that if I leave
I didn't stop choosing you —
I stopped choosing me
02/28/2025
Mar 25 · 214
A lone | Haiku
LL Mar 25
always a lone chair
at every table — am I
meant to be alone?

02/27/2025
Mar 25 · 64
Stuck | Tanka
LL Mar 25
right at that moment
when the sun disappeared, I
should've broke orbit
instead I stayed in place — stuck
exactly where you left me
02/26/2025
Mar 25 · 80
Got off | Haiku
LL Mar 25
this feels like a long
ride where everyone got off —
and then it's just me
02/25/2025
Mar 25 · 53
— | Haiku
LL Mar 25
for eight hours a day
I die at my office desk —
and then I drive home
02/24/2025
Mar 18 · 105
Raging | Haiku
LL Mar 18
a raging river
of thoughts,  a stream of words — the
rest flows out as tears

02/23/2025
Mar 17 · 153
Pressure | Haiku
LL Mar 17
I can work under
pressure — is it your job to
put pressure on me?
02/22/2025
Mar 13 · 68
Exist | Haiku
LL Mar 13
take me by the hand
that is how I'll know for sure
that I still exist
02/21/2025
Mar 12 · 90
Stop me | Haiku
LL Mar 12
stop me — stop what we're
doing just so I can get
on my knees to plead
                                      (don't)
02/20/2025
Mar 12 · 330
Exactly | Haiku
LL Mar 12
teach me how to look
at you like I know exact-
ly
what we'll do next
02/19/2025
Mar 6 · 72
Own | Haiku
LL Mar 6
to those who told me
they did it for my own good —
I'm not good — what now?
02/18/2025
Mar 4 · 271
With | Haiku
LL Mar 4
if I can only
be happy for you and not
happy with you — f***
02/17/2025
Feb 24 · 215
Sky | Haiku
LL Feb 24
to see you smile like
Sakaguchi Kentaro
is my sun and sky
02/16/2025
Feb 22 · 165
Lung-full | Haiku
LL Feb 22
oh how I wish to
be kissed like I'm his first and
last
lung-full of air
02/15/2025
Feb 22 · 78
Which | Free verse
LL Feb 22
when my palm is on
the side of my face
and my fingers curl
at the back of my neck
I can't tell
which
feels which

02/14/2025
Feb 22 · 59
Foreigner | Haiku
LL Feb 22
my skin is foreign
land — just as my hand is a
foreigner on yours
02/13/2025
Feb 20 · 100
Missed | 6 words
LL Feb 20
missed my turn.
distracted.
missing you.
02/12/2025
Feb 18 · 70
At home | Haiku
LL Feb 18
not in my room — yet
out here in the midst of this
storm — I feel at home
02/11/2025
Feb 18 · 111
Act | 6 words
LL Feb 18
one-man show.
acting okay.
performs daily.
02/10/2025
Feb 18 · 103
Footfalls | Haiku
LL Feb 18
I hear rain coming
like heavy footfalls of my
favorite person
02/09/2025
Feb 18 · 63
Mondays | Haiku
LL Feb 18
Mondays are for things
often left open from the
night before — close me
02/08/2025
Feb 17 · 99
Soft | Haiku
LL Feb 17
made of soft mornings
humid noons, quiet evenings —
I dream of summer
02/07/2025
Feb 17 · 140
Sweeter | Haiku
LL Feb 17
infinitely slow
yet certainly numbered — this
makes summer sweeter
02/06/2025
Feb 17 · 110
Grandma's | Haiku
LL Feb 17
you're the summer months
I spent in Grandma's house — moves
infinitely slow

02/05/2025
Feb 10 · 68
Chance | Tanka
LL Feb 10
you hear my nightmares
because no one would take them
and you would tell me
you had one too last night as
if it's not mere chance — but fate
02/04/2025
Feb 8 · 69
Taisei | Haiku
LL Feb 8
**** I keep losing
you in the crowd, guy who looks
like Kido Taisei
02/03/2025
Feb 8 · 91
Crowded room | Haiku
LL Feb 8
thank the gods we're in
a crowded room — I would've
confessed* where I stood

(*or came out)
02/02/2025
Feb 8 · 164
Poured | Haiku
LL Feb 8
days — blurry, nights — hazed
time poured in a glass-like stream
unremarkably
02/01/2025
Feb 7 · 93
Start slow | Haiku
LL Feb 7
if you wish to know
me, start slow — I'm an image
still painting itself
01/31/2025
Jan 30 · 90
Disengagement | Haiku
LL Jan 30
can't tell if it's the
cold air — or disengagement
that makes mornings hard
01/30/2025
Jan 29 · 142
Anguish | Haiku
LL Jan 29
you only listen
when you hear the alcohol
talking — in anguish
01/29/2025
Jan 28 · 80
Infinity | Tanka
LL Jan 28
I can explain the
concept of infinity
better than I can
comprehend the breadth and depth
of the space you have for me
01/28/2025
Jan 27 · 75
Difference | Haiku
LL Jan 27
in the end it's not
the time difference but the
difference in us
01/27/2025
Jan 26 · 81
Allowed | Free Verse
LL Jan 26
your kind
of gorgeous
brings me
to my knees
so hard
it shouldn't
be allowed
01/26/2025
Jan 26 · 235
Sheets | Haiku
LL Jan 26
got so depressed in
the middle of changing sheets
I slept without one
01/25/25
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