People always said you had a way with words. So why are you not taking advantage of something that comes so easily to you ( Read more... )

I'm feeling awful right now. I feel like I was terrible to him. He didn't know that I was hurting. He didn't know he was losing me. I tried telling him, once. Then I guess I just kind of gave up ( Read more... )

What a year it has already been.
I have a completely different mindset now, ever since I packed my things and started a new life on the central coast. With no desire to ever procreate and being in no rush at all to find my true love and settle down, life is just full of so many possibilities.
Life can mean something completely different when you ( Read more... )

When you're trying to be funny any everyone takes you seriously. 

I can learn to let go of what was never there in the first place; the absence of what has always been absent ( Read more... )

I feel a little hurt, a little sad, a little disappointed ( Read more... )

Morning never feels like a beginning
When, in the last second of a dream
I find myself talking underwater,
Waking to the sound of murmuring
Something about the sting of chlorine
And the copper souvenirs abandoned
On the rough white bottom.
I return to this place from time to time
And reason this is why he left one night
While I pretended to be to ( Read more... )

October was our favorite month. At least I won't be around to watch the maple gush red leaves in the stale heat on the thirsty front lawn--
that will always be such a heavy part of me.
I wish there was some kind of in-between
With and without you

I am pretty good at being alone, except for learning how to cook dinner for one person again. 

Breathing in your shoulder, I realize I am starting to get cold. That was the cold summer, the coldest one in history. I still see it when I close my eyes, the darting red images burned into corneas. The sun bows down to dip its silver threads and when he kneels into that salty pool the earth opens up and the sea lights up in gold ( Read more... )