whats your favorite color? have you ever been in love? dogs or cats? did you have someone who already knew the answers to these questions? are you trying to unlearn their address too? do… read more

i think i forgot how to drive so i’ve been doing laps around your old neighborhood. partly because i know everything’s changed and partly because i know nothing’s changed and all i’ve ever known… read more

i’ve decided that i let you off the hook too easily. never wrote your name in a poem or demanded an apology. i could’ve been red with my anger. spit it onto your doorstep… read more

originally written june 2025 at nineteen my reflection is laffy taffy pink, stretched to its limit and spun around a knife. at nineteen my best friends live in a screen, and i press my… read more

it’s november, after all, the air feels heavier while the sky churns itself into the deepest shade of blue it owns. you hold the carton of milk like a memory, expired before you even… read more

originally written october 2023 as a kid, i used to write my mother poems / they had rhyme schemes and thanked her for things like / driving me to school so i didnt have… read more

if i twist my heart into a shape that will no longer be called a heart,  it’ll still hold love for you, you know? but i wish it won’t the next time i hear… read more

i stopped doing my dishes for eight days straight.  i look for it in everything and find it waiting for me every time.  i am stardust, i am wounded animal,  i am repeating myself… read more

the paint from the walls of my heart  are starting to flake off and fall like confetti  as if to celebrate the inevitable fact that you will leave once you know,  and so you… read more