Published Poems

I took the long way around,winding through your collarbone.Your breath,the traffic lightpausingfrom redto green. A place of excitement,controlledin safety. Your laugh,a detourto explore more.The road…

I press into your lipsand breathe.It may seem like I’m holdingon to you,but really,you’re holding on to me. Your fingers wrapped aroundmy attention,you pull me,a…

Take the scissors,and cut around the edges of my heart.Don’t worry about how it looks.Fold whatever part of methat you need to make the first…

I’ve never had anyone lookat me the way that you do.The first time I saw it,I tried to catch itbut missed. Much like a shooting…

Put me to sleepI says put me back to sleepand lock the door. I got some place to be,got someones to see. You can’t understand.You…

I can’t unlove because I amimpatient, selfish.I love as if I cannot be hurt,going on as if nothing is wrong. I cannot unlove because I…

Sensual – a poem about the kind of love that sneaks in without warning, then warms you up from the inside out. Follow The Smoke…

The Last Piece is a poem about love offered from a place of pain, and how we sometimes try to make someone feel whole while…

I fall for you without a carein the world. I drown,no matter how loud the world. Dripclinging to you,not afraid to fall. My breath, steady,shifting…

I touch you in a placemost look past,a place within reach. It is within this placeI feel most alive. The space between hearts,the space between…

I don’t know if you ever listened to the sky when it gets hungry. It growls.It rumbles.Even roams. It sits in the dark,contemplating what it…

I boarded her heart,careful to follow the politics of comfort.Too much weight on either side, and we’ll surely panictumbling down, spiraling out of control. I…

Lightning appears,followed by the roll of thunder.It crashes boldly,colliding between the drops of rain. There is no fear, standing between us twomy soul reaching out…