I know better

than to get my hopes

up, but butterflies

still fluttered beneath

my breastbone 

when you kissed 

m...

The silence will break you,

steal the shuddering exhales

from your lungs and pull -

pull - pull like a magician

yankin...

I broke the world

for you, inverted the sky.

It was nothing.

It was everything.

I bent the rules,

defied logic, watched

wh...

(and it isn’t even gilded)

I said, “Apathy has never really been my thing,”

and he laughed. But I lied. It was a bald-faced ...

Baby girl, you’ve got such tired eyes –

this life has worn you down, sunk

its teeth into your spine, broken bones

you didn’t even know you h...