frannerisms

  • Inhale exhaust while he sleepsthe whites of your eyes like peppermint barkA silhouette of a woman in prayer behind blowing cream curtains-Your nape, his cleft, his absence, your depthonce you’ve sucked the marrow out of his spine, clipped wisdom teeth around your neckHave you had enough, girl? Sustainable life, not yours to keepHe was small,…

  • somewhere behind my eyes,something sandy, sticky, and incompleteIt seizes me, this something, it seizes me and I wrestle it into the sandIt’s the middle of the night and the tide of mind is highthe sweetness of grief for days is shortened by a run-on sentencethat swims in the reservoir in the cavern of my it-cagelines…

  • Quiet the mind that stirsValuable notions go undisturbedI feel like a celebration of the unofficial morgue, I felt desperation and still I wonder who I wasChelsea. Hugh. Lilac school.I wanted buttons on my backpack that stayed on through natural disaster-Not big storm oh fuck we-are-at-her-whim disasterI mean Natural like casual or meant-to-beAnd Disaster like calamity…

  • I can say whatever I want!hoorayThe cavities of my face don’t fill with helium laughter,my lungs don’t exhaust the wild cards that burn me.Rows of people yell hip hip hooray (x2) and say let’s write down all that she has to say.Oh disenfranchised, open your mouths! We won’t judge anything that comes flying outIn the…

  • feb 12, 2020 If you don’t face your fears you avoid a lot of things, least of which is the main thing you mean to avoid so facing them helps you to face so many things and to be a part of a bigger world that you didn’t even know you were avoiding. Likewise, facing…

  • I can’t believe I’m here right now, I can’t believe I came I can’t believe there are things inside me that the mountain wants to un-tame

  • Throw enough of yourself at something that new “yous” have to grow in the absence of yourself. Be a flower excited by her pruning, read for the discard, grow in the absence of yourself unfettered, filling up holes and making new, taking old, making you… that I can, and will do. suggested listening: The Big…