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I'm curious about your writing style. Do you write prose first (with poetry...
I just write my poems in verse to begin with, and break them into lines as I go where it feels most natural.To me, writing prose first and then breaking it into lines afterward would feel like...
View Articleex-boyfriends are like ghost towns
I fall in love with men unexpectedly, like an earthquakethat hasn’t shown up on the radar, or a tsunamior some other kind of sudden crisis. I meet them in bars,at house parties, at neighborhood...
View Articlegreat writing blog to follow
great writing blog to follow: My name is Alex Sparks. I’m a poet, student, and filmmaker living in Los Angeles, CA. I like rap…
View Articlehow to lie when someone asks if you still love him
Tonight I can smell her on you like a talisman,a nametag, a grave marker. I wonder if she kissedyour birthmark, the dark red splotch hidden onyour inner thigh like a sunrise that jumped forty feetfrom...
View Articleyou should do a poll and see what age groups read your writing! i am curious!
Okay haha if anyone would like to comment below with their approximate age (you know, like 18-25 or 45-55 or something), then go ahead and do so! Only if you’re comfortable, of course. :)
View Article"People change and forget to tell each other."
“People change and forget to tell each other.” - Lillian Hellman (via darccyyyy)
View Articledo you write all of this yourself? I sort of collect poems so I read a lot of...
Yes, I do write all this myself! I think it’s a wonderful idea to collect poems like that; I do it too. I’m incredibly honored that I’m one of your favorite authors. :DAnd yes, I will definitely...
View Articlearpista: I was younger yesterday. My body was a little lighter then. There...
arpista:I was younger yesterday. My body was a little lighter then. There are people in love with shadows and cardboard toilet paper tubes. They are waiting at bus stops. They are having dinner with...
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love as an act of russian roulette
The night we hid in your car beneath the new snow,pressed into one another by the weight of the avalanche,I reinvented all the time I’d spent before you.I brought back the dinosaurs from extinction,...
View Articlebreathing in morse code
Today I memorize your heartbeat line by line.You once got a tattoo of the spikes of breath that show upon a breathing machine in the hospital, on your forearmabove the tiny red birthmark that looked...
View ArticleI'm sixteen and I love your writing, it's beautiful and haunting and you have...
I’m really happy that you think I’m able to convey the beauty in the ordinary, because I really do think that the most ordinary things are actually the most extraordinary. So thank you.Have a nice day...
View Article"I think it’s intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are."
“I think it’s intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are.” - Don Cheadle (via v-erecundus)
View ArticleMy mom has taken everything away from me. She's taken away my girlfriend, my...
And you’ll always have words. Other things may come and go, but words will always stay. I want you to remember that, and I’m so glad you believe that words will help you get through this. I believe...
View Articlea series of chance encounters: coincidences, you might call them
I remember the day we both went up to your room after meeting for coffee and you asked if I wanted to listen to any of your CDs but we ended up listening to one another’s heartbeats instead, so...
View Articlea checklist for how to heal from the wounds of love
I loved impulsively even before I was eighteen.I want to be a source of light to everyone I know,like a pool of water the color of sea foam that spillsover sleeping lovers on the shore. Learning how to...
View Articlea list of things i'll never tell him
I’m sorry we mistook emotional manipulation for love.I finished off that half-eaten apricot on your plateon graduation day because I wanted to swallow somethingthat had touched your mouth.Here’s a...
View Articleearlier there was an ask saying how they appreciate that you find the beauty...
Romanticizing the beauty in ordinary life would mean that I was describing it in an unrealistic manner; I would be making it idealistic or romantic instead of just ordinary.Whereas finding the beauty...
View ArticleI always notice patterns of the symbols that come up in your work, like...
Sometimes they mean something special to me, like the story about a cop who gave a pair of boots to a homeless man in NYC, and other times I just like revisiting the same symbol in different poems in...
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