Raped in a parking deck
Foreigner to my body
I am invisible as thought
Now

Today I shattered your firefly jar.

I sat in the pieces and cried and cried.

And then I got up and spent hours breaking and rebreaking them, slicing into my fingers, so they could fit back together perfectly.

They did.

I washed the blood off the jar and sat it back on its shelf.

Worth it. 

"I think, 'I want to die first so I never have to live without her.' But then, 'No, I want her to die first so she never has to live without me.'"

I laid up for hours in a daze
Retracing the expanse of your American back
With Adderall and weed in my veins
You came
I think
Because the marble made my cheeks look pink
But I'm unsure of so many things

To my childhood home ( Read more... )

Just-born July,
So hot I can hear you:
I promise to live humbly
Within the kingdom of your thunderheads
Forever and ever.
Amen.

To have stopped breathing 

To be between breaths 

I'm sorry I wasn't there ( Read more... )

"I’m trying not to sit here and tell you that my hair smells like mint chocolate chip because I’m fresh out of the shower and I wish you were here to smell it and tell me it smells good and we’d laugh about how we smell each other and that one time you ate a burrito off my belly and how often we say, “Remember that time you ate a burrito off me?” ( Read more... )