Great and deep carrier of whale bones I can nearly touch the surface foaming with unkempt rage Breaking mountains into ragged rays, black...

Class of 2021, good afternoon. I was tasked today with writing an uplifting speech. (Which is to say: I was told to pour twelve years...

If you’re looking for me, I’ll be Under the moonlight, Counting the stars through The gaps between my fingers, Where lie the promise of...

While talking of two years ago, we lie and watch the moon; your tired eyes are blinking quick, my mom wants me home soon. The concrete...

There's this smell I can't quite trace It's spreading, tentacles coming for my throat Proliferating Detonating the tickers within my...

Go across the stream where there are beetles that would wet your feet. Their voices surround and repeat in a ruthless rhythm. Till...

Jesus should know that no one has time for sincerity. Everyone loves me because I serve illusions of goodness Like fast food. Forgiveness...

It's gotten to that point again. I’ve destroyed myself just to build myself back up again. I let myself go, washing away into the Cold...

We stand shoulder to shoulder Hair charcoal black, eyes the rich earth Flaming blood from one fire To any foreigner, plumage of same...

My grandmother is learning braille, her wrinkled fingers feel around for the dunes of the wooden page, I watch as she shows me the...

I am that golden leaf dangling in the breeze , only noticed for my destiny— to fall. another faint zephyr sweeps me up and I want to...

My mother planted a garden and soon sweet bees swarmed in she showered it with fresh dew rain and the soft scent of honeysuckles...

I look to the sky and wait a moment of silence in anticipation of its touch I open my mouth as it begins to descend from the heavens...

"Texas girl visits Idaho but never learned how to tell the difference between angels and local wildlife" Out back of my aunt and uncle’s...

across the street i see an old man and a nineteen-year-old girl. a newborn wails in her arms as a burnt cigarette lands at her feet....

I don’t think it’ll get near us. I heard there’s already some nearby— The chatter swells in the airport and up in the clouds, But comes...

tread carefully, my dear upon the crushed cans the cloying syrup submerges your stockinged feet the meticulous snapsnapsnap of splintered...

i wake up. i brush my stained teeth so the plaque disintegrates. i feed marley and boil only one egg while i drink fresh solitude from...

Some days I wish it was socially acceptable to run into the garden and scream into the sky. I wish to tear every shred of weight out of...

Drenched in a downpour of sweat I wake in my torn tent with a start; Hands trembling, bile in my throat, I grab for my M16 but find...