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i haven’t been sleeping  but when i do  i don’t let myself sleep beneath the covers  because lately i’ve been getting tangled up in the blankets  and my mother worries i will choke myself  so i have not unmade my bed  in twenty one days and since i stopped sleeping  i don’t know what to…

i’m stuck in a snow globe        a never ending winter we are picturesque on the outside but i’m catching frostbite on my fingertips i am a decaf coffee you drink just to go about your day your sweetness exhausts me but the comfort of habit always brings me back as i sit here staring at…

vulnerability is a forbidden language that sits  in my gritted teeth              and in the waterline of my eyes.  toes tightened to the ground           and nails to my palms.  the tears pricking at my eyes will only be on the verge and never leave the place they call home.  my emotions, like a body covered…

i was nine  when i had my first migraine  but i sometimes feel its pain above my left eyebrow when i squint  and it hurts like my father’s rage and my mother’s grief.  the orbits in my eyes cradle a child  who once evaluated what she’d need if she ran away,  her first thought was…

i dream of the city: big flashing lights, skyscraping wonders.  the stars not lit here, nothing to guide me home.  do you get lost often? when your feet hit the concrete, where do you run? where do you go? i wonder about the places that have hurt you. that have made you.  where your hair…