Missing you comes in usually tiny waves, yet tonight, I am drowning. Is it so crazy to say I miss you? Until this weekend, I haven’t even thought of you. You are a figment of my past. And I despised you most of the time. Yet for some reason, I saw you and I realized it was fun loving you. It was fun to kiss you and be held by you. Talking to you again took me back to the days when we would laug...

I can't remember your name anymore  Or exactly the way you looked But I've still kept you under the floorboards all these years,  Only freeing bits of you under the guise of a joke Or a throwaway explanation for how I ended up this way  I've never said aloud exactly what you did because I couldn't look at it long enough to name it.  I know you shined a light on parts of me I didn't know I had B...

I scratched the question into the back of my head  How hard can it be to reach perfection? And the answer rang out as my hopeless screams in an empty field  It pounced on me, sank its teeth into my neck as my sister's voice of concern My body knew long before I did that it wasn't made of paper And I couldn't fold away the ugly edges or tear away the mistakes. I spent all that time burning a...

Every time I visit the beach, I think of you I peer into its twisting and churning currents,Its depth and power unknowable to me And I think of youI imagine you seaside or hillside or somewhere else,Wherever the wind could blow in your hair and the sun could shine on your face I think of your fingers touching the grass with such care that I wish it was me I think of the way you spokeLike a gent...