fingers sinking feeling squishing I gather the springy coils of your curls and my palm remembers moss damp organic spongy thick yielding softly sapling sighing smushing my face into yours breathing you in my nose remembers the wholeness of your body and your vines are twining round me so now my branches grow in spirals… Continue reading My Love is a Planet
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The Dream
In the dream my brother tells me Love is All A revelation unfolds in my chest A memory made new clothed in his voice We are crossing a river that carves Through a honey-colored canyon Of striated sun-drenched stone A black goat stands in the shallows and watches As I gather up the layers of… Continue reading The Dream
Nostalgia
Summer’s languishing end Makes me a child again I have just become aware Of this thing called Time I am realizing suddenly That Forever is so brief That life is coming to claim me The hours are no longer mine My feet are cold standing On the sun-drenched asphalt My hands are dirty clutching A… Continue reading Nostalgia
The Poem
There was a poem on my bedroom wall It was about outer space and being in love Erotic in the way that only metaphors can be I would read it in a rush Holding my breath until the last line And then I would read it again Because it was a perfect thing And as… Continue reading The Poem
Hooking up with your Ex
When you get up out of the bed I feel my body suggesting that this hurts That we are being abandoned So I snuggle up with it And remind it Of all the little pleasures of our routine The way we spend our mornings alone My body and I There will be deep breaths There… Continue reading Hooking up with your Ex
Siren Song
Her body is a siren song You are led into an ocean of unknowing Within, within So everyone that has ever loved her Found themselves in over their heads Impossible to cling to her For she is water Changeable, tempest-tossed The seaweed of her hair around your throat She coats you with pearls And you… Continue reading Siren Song
A Lantern
Hours after you leave, I sit still I feel it coming over me like a moonrise This emotion that makes its home in me For a little while, all at once Creating the tides of my heart Coming and going This feeling wants you It longs, it calls It forms words that lead nowhere Urging… Continue reading A Lantern
A Little About the Author
When I was a small child, my mom’s nickname for me was Elf Queen. During that first period of my life (when I wasn’t voraciously reading) I was constantly creating and inventing characters and worlds, whether by drawing, writing, or becoming them. As young as five or six years old, after writing my first-ever story… Continue reading A Little About the Author
Ghost Love
It’s long now since I breathed my last And saw my life go flashing past No body now in which to play I sigh, I drift, I fade away It’s quite alright, just floating here Compared to Earth, this is more real While humans wonder what they are I simply have become the stars As… Continue reading Ghost Love
Fly Away Home
From the very beginning Your eyes told me the old story Alive with a fire That drew me in I knew it would burn But I leisured in you Like a summer day So warm on my skin To blister later For the bliss of now So I can’t be angry That you burnt my… Continue reading Fly Away Home
Queen of Elves 