How do I tell a stranger, when they smile and softly question,”How have you been?”How do…

You spoke so little,yet I could hearthe hush of heavendrawing near.And every stormthat made me bleedbowed…

This month’s full moon asked me to sit with myself in complete honesty.Not with the version…

I’m not broken,I’m just exhausted.Exhausted from carrying stormsinside a body that still gets up every morning.From…

Your voice never needed to be loud.  It found me anyway; settling somewhere beneath my ribs, …

You hurt me.Not because you stopped loving me-but because you let me believe  you always would.If…

I have had enough.Not of loving you-that affliction has rooted too deeply to be torn from…

I talked to him today,No storm to outrun, No debts left unpaid,We spoke likeevening light;low and…

I opened another red sentenceacross my skin.And then another.And another.I mistook my bodyfor a placewhere sorrow…

If the world were handed back to me-unwritten,its mornings still dark,its stars still becoming-I would walk…