haunted house
perfume (yours) lingers in my room
though you haven’t entered it since october last
this is me lying to you
the summer ended in caffeine dregs at the bottom of my cup i don’t think i like my hometown any longer but when i think too hard about it
non-fiction fiction reality!
isn’t it funny? it seems like the whole world exists in limbo with love indefinitely, letter from early summer sits in my drawer like i even knew what that meant
breakfast in limbo
there's so much i'm not supposed to tell you
i've gathered angels, i've begun consorting with greater beings
north carolina funeral
gold red green autumn tipped leaves and
spots of mold along my heart
Cigarette Break on Prom Night
Yellow lamplight flickers
The drone of cicadas, the press of April heat
noon on sunday
bugs swarm a black cloud around the cake
but i’ve only just made it this morning.
SUMMER, SOFT MIDNIGHT
summer unwinds, all golden arms and these purple flowers will soon lie dead on the earth’s floor. there is a great red cyst forming on my hand
Cruel World
sea-spray and several tightly woven salt-laden oceans / the wicked sun rising in my dusk setting in your dawn
white fang eats the sun
displeased with my tenderness and upset with the mess from my heart that lies quivering on the plate in a pool of yellow ooze
10.3.24 / 2:27 am
i think it’s futile, rest. the biggest relief, the most selfish of indulgences. my mind creates little titles and definitions for sleeping and i find it’s tattooed on me, my lack of ecstasy.
st. valentine in a bath of milk
lover
the curtains are drawn but the window is still ajar
lets the moonlight (milk-white) drip in
roman lovelace
Roman Lovelace was an only child, living with just his aunt. His father had passed in Roman’s infancy, and his mother had died when he was ten…
the ringleader
Achilles was dipped in the River Styx /
but the Ringleader was draped in Heaven’s light /
bathed in it, glowing. Six at night
invitation to the donner party
i. the invitation
/ An invitation to a dinner party /
Eggshell paper, finely cut