flighty windswept raven hair and
eyes deep
like black rudimentary soil,
mischievous, wildroot dimples,
...
Nights on the beach we tried to reach China
(the air salty, the wind rough)
always searching for something
...
The World smiles at me
like I never thought it would
and I blush like the little girl I am.
Hungrily,
...
I don’t know if my parents had
big dreams I don’t know if they
fell deeply into young love I don’t
know if they ever cried for the
...
One step to my right will send me careening.
I am blocked to my left by the barrier of nothing.
...
When the days start to slide
into two-faced mediocrity,
should we blend back
into the dreams we come from?
...
I need the control, we screamed.
Come a little closer, you begged.
Let’s share our souls, I meant.
...
[Sweet birch trees, swishing
in the breeze, blushing
periwinkle hues spread across the sky and
fingers laced. Traced, backwards,
...
We are two figures
silhouetted against a smoky, quivering backdrop.
Once we move the world tips
me into you
...
He whispered something like,
I had a dream last night.
The trees were envious of your beauty,
and lost in your confusion.
...