i dont want the things i dont know about you
to become permanently unknowable.
which is to say
please stay.
spill your heart
on my ripped jeans like morning coffee,
clumsily, everywhere,
& when it is most uncomfortable.
you dont have to hold me constantly,
just when i need it,
enough to know im wanted.
this burning building body i call home
does not need gasoline,
nor to be extinguished.
please just learn to appreciate the imbalance.
a careless constant carnival act.
what i could say,
what i should say,
english becomes foreign
when trying to speak to you.
i apologize ahead of time.

If I can swim in two feet of water
then I can swim in ninety
This depth won’t drown me
My legs are strong
but my mind is stronger

I hate her because you said you loved her
And I don't even know her.

A dictionary in a bag of bricks.
I watch it sink down the swamp.
Words only mean what we do with them after,
So I never feast until I know there's dessert coming.

I am the stone before the statue.
A block of possibility.
Waiting for guidance like a wiseman,
From anyone that can convince me we're not all mad for trying.

I am the stone before the statue.
Waiting to be carved.
Waiting to be told who I am.

at some point in time
you have to stop

stop being sad
heartbroken
and as blue as the tears you cry

because the icecaps are melting
and the seawaters are rising
and every tear you shed
is drowning us

none of us can stay afloat
in weeping waters

s.s

she painted red murals
of beauty and grace
of lovers in bed
in faultless embrace

she crafted these masterpieces
with red poured from skin
to show how misery ceases
when you pull beauty from within

s.s