weeping willow, burning bush
writingsforwinter:I’m tired of the way my grandfather’s hands always smelllike burnt flour and cigarettes, as if destroying thingsdown to their last remaining cinders is his life’s calling.I remember...
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text reads: this doesn’t compare to the feel of your skin
text reads: this doesn’t compare to the feel of your skin
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gr-apevinefires: I’m excited beyond words. I am so excited too!...
gr-apevinefires:I’m excited beyond words.I am so excited too! You’re the first person to have posted a photo of yourself with my new book. :) Thank you so much for buying it, and I hope you enjoy the...
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froidwinter: CAN WE TALK ABOUT HOW EXCITING THIS IS I CAN’T...
froidwinter:CAN WE TALK ABOUT HOW EXCITING THIS IS I CAN’T EVEN BREATHE BYEI’m just excited that you’re excited! Thanks again. :)If anyone else would like to buy Healing Old Wounds With New Stitches,...
View Articlethe eating disorder recovery poem
I know you hate this bodyso much you’d rather crucify it with juice cleanses and midnight bingesthan remove your brittle bones from the cross of self-doubt,but sometimes it’s better to cut yourself...
View ArticleSorry if you have already answered this, but what are your top 3 favourite...
Top 3 only? You’re making this too difficult for me! :) I’d love to get the first two tattooed on me."Time held me green and dying, though I sang in my chains like the sea." -Dylan Thomas"We’re neither...
View Articleself-portrait of me without you
There are still photographs of you asleep in my bed,with smears of crushed coffee beans washing over every faded corner;I’ve looked at them so much it’s almost a surpriseto wake up to an empty pillow.I...
View Articlewhere do you find the time to write all your wonderful poems?! you post so...
I write at least one a day!
View Article"It is terrifying to think that one day you will trust somebody enough to let...
“It is terrifying to think that one day you will trust somebody enough to let them see you naked. You will undress and remind them that you’ve stretch marks and birth marks and scars from having...
View Articlehello meggie. i was wondering if it's okay to you if i'll print some of your...
Hello!Yes, of course you may do so! I would be honored, and I hope this special person enjoys their gift of poetry.Merry Christmas to you as well. :)
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what a joy to be so insincere like every other skeleton
what a joy to be so insincere like every other skeleton
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The mixed-media collage self-portraits I created today. All in a...
The mixed-media collage self-portraits I created today.All in a hard day’s work.
View Articleyou broke my heart, so there's the door
I pretended I knew it was coming; that’s why the combinationto the vault of my heart could only be opened by twisting the lock to 9-1-1;you declared the space between my ribs an emergency zonejust by...
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So excited to get this in the mail today! And let me add that...
So excited to get this in the mail today!And let me add that the envelope was hand addressed from the publisher so that’s pretty cool too.I’m just excited that you’re excited! Thanks again. :)If anyone...
View ArticleI'm buying your books not just because I love your writing, but because I...
Thank you so, so much. I appreciate that you’re buying them even though you’re in a financially difficult situation yourself.Too many people on this site have sent me angry messages about how they...
View Articlewhen i asked all the women in my life, this is what they said.
I asked my great-grandmother how her arthritic bones feltand she said better now that all the men on the streetconsider her too old to wolf-whistle at like a soup kitchenthey think they’re entitled to...
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Survival Songs is available through Barnes & Noble, through...
Survival Songs is available through Barnes & Noble, through Fameless Publishing, through Amazon as a paperback copy, through Amazon as a Kindle copy, through iBooks, through Chapters, through...
View Article(2) i am so happy i am finally getting your book. i just wanted to let you...
(This is in response to the first part of your message as well)I’m so sorry the holidays are usually a difficult time for you. I think it’s wonderful of your dad to try and cheer you up as much as...
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Want to read this poem and others like it? :) They’re all...
Want to read this poem and others like it?:)They’re all in my poetry book Survival Songs, available through Barnes & Noble, through Fameless Publishing, through Amazon as a paperback copy, through...
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