Words give us the power to share our personal experiences, express our inner-most selves, and build community. Below you will find a collection of my poetry, prose, and short stories. I hope they resonate with you and open up an opportunity for connection and contemplation.
Only some have access to me. Anomalously, those who do will never absorb the all-encompassing capacity of what I bear. Passersby through space and time will see bits and parts of me as I seep out like soft rain unto the semi-liquid heads that limberly lie below. I wonder what would happen if I gave over myself to a mere mortal all at once; every ounce of me to the very last little drop – (would they survive)? I am knowledge and I am only meant to be shared in bits and pieces of bite-sized droplets over pretty little periods of time atop dry dripping tongues that just so happen to flick out far enough to catch me.
I feel lonely most of the time, though it’s not all bad. I have spent the past week restless, staring at my hands, studying simple whirls, loops, and arches, stopping now-and-then to pick the skin from my nail beds. The first three nights were hushed and full of frisk from a peaceful rain. The next two nights were life giving, as they faded into the morning with softness and patience. Tonight, I am introduced to heat.
They are piercing, but they are warm enough to last me for another cycle. We grew together spinning – around ourselves, on some axis, within a wave of wild vigor. Heat is kind enough to remind me that they do not belong to me. Heat does not even know I am there as we dance together. They give reflections and refractions of light and life, yet they fade too soon because they know they will eventually spark for a final time.
How does one fill the space in between? Taking the time to make time whilst time itself has no concept it exists. It goes on and on in a multitude of layers (all at once), never stopping for a moment to ask itself how it got there or when it began or who dwells amongst it’s limitless depth– It’s intramural swell. Its endless wingspan. It’s everlasting mobility. It's boundless inversion.
life-breathed by Betsy Ross—
shades of innocence interrupted
by bands of blood, leveraging
heavily a box in left space up top
where heavenly bodies between blue veins
squeeze inside super-sized sacred spaces
upholding holy, meretriciously war woven cloth
simultaneously leaving heavens gate’s open
where waves of children of God abducted
at borders closed off to His creation:
superseding and swindling the still birth
of a such a glorious, god-fearing nation
light-bore holes from moths—
words of insolence through induction
by devilish hands, successionally
settling down the supple souls to shop
where rightfully religious reverence stays
etched and erected amongst holiest places
beholding lowly, conspicuously waxing wroth
simultaneously leaving mouths wide open
where caves of dwelling with God corrupted
by borders closed off to His creation:
superseding and swindling the still birth
of a such a glorious, god-fearing nation
now there they still sat stuck froth:
some self-righteous sore lumps lingering
between bristles of the holy paintbrush
to make thee an ark of gopher wood
and forget not to go before thyself
to cram in space for ethereal good
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