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The idea of family is foreign to me. Growing up, I had a family, but I always felt like I didn’t belong. I was the black sheep wearing a second skin, the unknowable one, bearing myself to every one, the odd one out. I… Continue Reading “The Family Tree – A Poem”
I always say I love you. But those words don’t encompass everything I feel, every emotion that runs through my body every time you look at me or run your fingers along my jawline. Simply saying I love you doesn’t capture the emotion that… Continue Reading “The Most Beautiful – A Poem”
When I came out of the closet, after finally being truthful about who I am and what I was, my mothers reaction was better than I could have hoped for. The only thing she said that worried her was: “Now I will worry more… Continue Reading “The Clouds of Forever – A Poem”
I’m waling in a landscape filled with glass. It glitters like diamonds on the ground, the sparkle from it like wishes given form. They are blinding, but still I look. While I gaze into the light, I see a land that I know well,… Continue Reading “The Light of Glass – A Poem”
He was reading one of my poems, flipping casually through the book. “Do you ever write this out in linear form? Like a short story?” I shook my head at him. “No. This wanted to come out as a poem.” “Well then it certainly… Continue Reading “The Wild Word – A Poem”