She swears like a sailor 
And has a librarian’s mind 
A bibliophile lost at sea, 
Raised by a pack of alley cats. 
When she was without books, 
She read people.  
When she was isolated, 
She read messages in constellations.  
When the sun shone, 
She read between the lines 
Of singing bird’s beaks. 
When her eyes gave out, 
She read with her heart. 

Her fingertips became 
tattered 
like the journals she scanned 
Reading pseudo-braille impressions 
Left over from impassioned 
Scribing sessions. 

She was a channel, 
Unaware of her station. 
She was a suspended beacon 
Turned siren, 
Cacophonous opus 
A sinking ovation…

• 
  Closest Distance
  Chastened chest Constricted congestion, Coughing up confessions Of fermented love For you. The contagious Brightness of your eyes Compete with The wildfires of mine Time and time Again We lose seconds When choosing our First choice last.
• Unpublished shit
  How you shatter through me Like the conversation piece Spoken of but not to How you believe I fade into The shadows of neglect Yet I shimmer violently Without meaning to And I have half a mind to ask for pardon… How these bruised knuckles Have hardened Into the softener of calloused hearts I weep… Read more: Unpublished shit
• Petals + Leaves
  Hugs — To embrace space is to hug infinity What they don’t tell you about the expansion journey…They say that you can’t take items with you and that some people won’t be able to join you in where you’re going. What they fail to inform you is that some of those people includes all of… Read more: Petals + Leaves
• Hyphens
  what do you do when you’re caught between your In-betweens?
• A Beauty Born Internally
  A butterfly never witnesses the beauty of its own vibrant wings