he presses a
two-minute-old
cigarette to the
nape of my
neck to re-
mind me he
thinks that
i am at his
fingertips.
sometimes
i snicker at
the ideology
that i am any
one’s for the
keeping. i
see him in
passing and
i do not act
less passive.
the…
he presses a
two-minute-old
cigarette to the
nape of my
neck to re-
mind me he
thinks that
i am at his
fingertips.
sometimes
i snicker at
the ideology
that i am any
one’s for the
keeping. i
see him in
passing and
i do not act
less passive.
the…
i remember how daunting the decision of a major back in my collegiate years felt.
you’re asked to decide overnight and sign on the dot, committing to a concept when you don’t even know all that you encompass yet.
i had a dream where diplomas looked like nothing more than…
they tell me to slow down and
i speed up in defiance.
the language of languid
is not one i can learn, as
that would require i leave
who i am in favor of lovers
and i don’t do that
anymore.
i hear that protecting your peace
involves pausing your…
i dream of fawns prancing in peony fields,
like bambi in the dense aura of evergreen trees.
when the sunlight focuses on the shrubbery
on the outskirts of my favorite town,
dew evaporates and so
do my worries.