I recently started getting into slam poetry and I was wondering if you could...
Sure! :)Gregory Sherl, Warsan Shire, Sierra DeMulder, Rudy Francisco, Bob Hicok, Buddy Wakefield, Mindy Nettifee, Kim Addonizio, Rachel McKibbens, Derrick C. Brown, Andrea Gibson, Rachel Wiley.
View Article"I know I’m unloveable, you don’t have to tell me."
“I know I’m unloveable, you don’t have to tell me.” - Morrissey (via ttender)
View Articlefor you, an elegy, a thousand times over
When I tried to fill my pockets with stones and step into the riveryou removed them one by one and cast them away after sayingmy heart was already so heavy it would weigh me downfar faster than any...
View ArticleHi! I really do love your writing and I find it quite lovely. I've been...
Hello! Thank you. :)Claudia Ann Seaman AwardsScholastic Art & Writing AwardsNational High School Poetry ContestLeonard Milberg Poetry PrizeLorian Hemingway Short Story CompetitionThe 35th Nimrod...
View Article"You asked me if I wanted to get drunk and stay the night, and I said yes,...
“You asked me if I wanted to get drunk and stay the night, and I said yes, and we ending up just lying there in bed, my head resting on your chest, thinking about all the parties we didn’t go to or the...
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"Stole your heart. You pressed charges."
“Stole your heart. You pressed charges.” - 6-Word Story #63
View ArticleWarning: Flammable
In Ancient Rome, the old women used to believe that after a nightof good love, it was possible for a couple to spontaneously combust,leaving nothing but a pile of slightly smoking ashes behind,...
View ArticleSinkhole
Three months ago a dead couple was unearthedfrom a sinkhole in Vermont, bodies still petrifiedin a locked embrace, the woman’s dark red hair still intact,tangled up in the man’s fingers as if he had...
View Article"..like all planets, I turn in my sleep, I’ve been doing it since before I...
““..like all planets, I turn in my sleep, I’ve been doing it since before I was born. My body is a nightmare it hurts me every day. I’ve been taught to resent it by boys trying to forge themselves...
View ArticleDo you believe in God? Please answer. You are beautiful btw.
<3To answer your question: Possibly. I don’t know. I’m at that point where I’m starting to wonder about faith and what it means.
View ArticleI've had obsessive, terrifying thoughts for years that I tried to manage on...
I am so very proud of you for getting the help you deserve, and I hope that your treatment goes well. I want you to know how much bravery it takes to stand up and ask for help-I admire you.You’re very,...
View ArticleHi, I was wondering if you have any pieces on war (or that mention it,...
Hello! I’m sorry for your loss, and I hope that the pain of his death will have eased a bit by the second anniversary. <3Sharon Olds has a section of poems about war in her poetry book One Secret...
View Article"Her heartbeat broke the sound barrier."
“Her heartbeat broke the sound barrier.” - 6-Word Story #64
View Articleafter my first lover turned out to be gay
On the first date he wanted to make love in the dark, undressed with the lights off, the curve of his back gleaming like the white halfof the cross-section of a pear, jeans pooling at his feet on the...
View Article"And if a double decker bus crashes into us, to die by your side is such a...
““And if a double decker bus crashes into us, to die by your side is such a heavenly way to die.”” - There Is a Light That Never Goes Out, The Smiths. (via definitelyinfinitely)
View Articlei struggle with somewhat disordered self-image that stems from food (not...
You’re very, very welcome. I hope that if you do show it to him, it helps him as much as it helped you. xo(If anyone else wants to read the poem, it’s here:...
View Articleeverything declaringwar writes is literally my biography. i identify with his...
everything declaringwar writes is literally my biography. i identify with his poems, even though they’re so simple and short, more than any other writers’ poems.
View Article"Make love to me in Spanish. Not with that other tongue. I want you juntito a...
“Make love to me in Spanish. Not with that other tongue. I want you juntito a mi, tender like the language crooned to babies. I want to be that lullabied, mi bien querido, that loved.I want you inside...
View Articlephone sex for a cancer patient and his lover
You called me up on the phone from your hospital bedas the nurses administered the chemo;we promised to make love in Braille the next timeyou slept over, to turn every touch into a different...
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