"and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)"

--e.e. cummings, "i carry your heart with me"

I am a girl made of metaphor, whose existence is punctuated by brief periods of artistry. Fiction is what I breathe, words steadily filling up my lungs, and so poetry is wound in the strings of my heart. I am addicted to adjectives and I lie to tell the truth sometimes, but we all do. I don't believe in abab rhyme schemes or politicians. And what remains to be told is found within my poems, because words are the only way to me.

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1. prisms and prisons reviews

sometimes I slip inside a metaphor to escape the confines of who I cannot be.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 146 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 5-16-08 - Published: 5-16-08

2. twelve » reviews

lightning left your cumulus lips, latched to mine.

Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 5 - Words: 778 - Reviews: 12 - Updated: 5-14-08 - Published: 4-13-08

3. the audacity of spring reviews

april 1st, the cruelest joke of all. how dare the earth be reborn while you are lying in a shell of dead wood! how can the seasons stomach it?

Complete - Family - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 141 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 4-17-08 - Published: 4-17-08

4. Eden reviews

In the garden of Paradise, unknowing, you taunt me with forbidden fruit, the nectar of your skin shining sweet, like appleflesh.

Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 92 - Reviews: 7 - Updated: 3-21-08 - Published: 3-21-08

5. how i live now reviews

no longer counting sheep, this self-induced insomnia has me wondering about the purpose of my ever-dwindling slumber and where my dreams have gone.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 89 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 2-22-08 - Published: 2-22-08

6. Don't Listen reviews

Prose poem. Within these lines, the words scream to fill my silence, shriek with all I am not saying, all I never will.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: T - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 379 - Reviews: 8 - Updated: 2-15-08 - Published: 2-15-08

7. These Orchards of Birth and Bone reviews

The fruits of their labor lie rotted at the base of each lightning struck tree. Peach sweet, never to blossom.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 69 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 1-5-08 - Published: 1-5-08

8. A Missive to the White House reviews

Your lifeless appeal to the American people is a red, white, and blue rhetoric. Washington is rolling in his grave.

Complete - Politics - Fiction Rated: T - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 214 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 1-1-08 - Published: 1-1-08

9. Pipe Dreams reviews

The letters assumed docile acceptance of the domestic symphony. But her dreams, grown from opium dens and in the Indian sun, are too big for chinaglazed Victorian ideals. She will not become another decoration in their beautifully empty homes.

Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 142 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 1-1-08 - Published: 1-1-08

10. Congratulations, Columbus reviews

This is the New World holocaust we don't like to talk about, what conquerors, seeking gold and glory, carried across the Atlantic. The Nina brought disorganization. The Pinta, disease. And the Santa Maria, death to the native people. Our inheritance.

Complete - Politics - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 171 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 12-31-07 - Published: 12-31-07

11. Star Show at the Cinema reviews

As you watch the meteors plummet across the screen, my gaze is locked on you like a star coming home.

Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 96 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 12-31-07 - Published: 12-31-07

12. seven ways to die » reviews

sylvia said, dying is an art, like everything else. inspired by the bell jar and lady lazarus.

General - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Angst - Chapters: 3 - Words: 380 - Reviews: 15 - Updated: 12-23-07 - Published: 11-23-07

13. holiday on skid row reviews

christmas no longer a holy day in your house, but a bitter reminder of all that you lack.

Complete - Family - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 82 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 12-19-07 - Published: 12-19-07

14. ember reviews

and it's like I'm full of electricity and I'm glowing in the dark. I'm on fire almost, I'm burning, but it doesn't matter because I know exactly who I am.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 120 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 11-17-07 - Published: 11-17-07

15. Epistle to the Victorians reviews

Woman, without her man, is nothing. Woman: without her, man is nothing.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 162 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 10-9-07 - Published: 10-9-07

16. Vermilion reviews

Winter sunset in ancient Greece. On her underworld throne, Persephone waits for spring.

Complete - Nature - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 144 - Reviews: 8 - Updated: 9-2-07 - Published: 9-2-07

17. bitter lullaby reviews

even nursery rhymes are no longer sacred...rockaby baby was never so dark.

Complete - Friendship - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 142 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 6-7-07 - Published: 6-7-07

18. Mellifluous reviews

I am envious of your flute.

Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: M - English - General/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 99 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 6-2-07 - Published: 6-2-07

19. magnolias reviews

like the magnolias, you captivated me. though they've long since wilted, you still intrigue me.

Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Angst/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 78 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 5-30-07 - Published: 5-30-07

20. watercolor days reviews

watercolor poets blur, but their words are etched like acrylic on my canvased mind.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 56 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 5-30-07 - Published: 5-30-07

21. trainwreck reviews

with the way man's been talking for centuries, you'd think the apocalypse was just around the corner. and who knows, maybe it is.

Complete - Religion - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 243 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 5-30-07 - Published: 5-30-07

22. the year reviews

oh caesar, I hate your spectred cage of divided time: these twelve months are too grand to fit in a pocket calendar.

Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 491 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 5-30-07 - Published: 5-30-07

23. moon scream reviews

what have our footprints been, but scars?

Complete - Nature - Fiction Rated: T - English - Angst/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 95 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 5-30-07 - Published: 5-30-07

24. letters from walden reviews

even thoreau snuck back into boston for a glance at the new york times.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Parody - Chapters: 1 - Words: 112 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 5-30-07 - Published: 5-30-07

25. pandora's box » reviews

a series of sketches of classical figures, both myth and man: newest are icarus and socrates. don't ask me why.

Religion - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Fantasy - Chapters: 2 - Words: 111 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 5-30-07 - Published: 5-30-07

26. epitaph reviews

bury me only if you promise not to look for these bones. and no, anna, this is not a suicide note, in case you were wondering.

Nature - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 134 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 5-30-07 - Published: 5-30-07

27. cocoon reviews

call me a suicidal butterfly if you will, but know that this prison is mine by choice.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 147 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 5-30-07 - Published: 5-30-07

28. cacophony reviews

chopin's exploitation of your ears never disturbed you before.

Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Angst/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 81 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 5-30-07 - Published: 5-30-07

29. beautiful insomniac reviews

oh, to sleep, perchance to dream. But shakespeare seems to have forgotten we dreamers of the sleepless nights.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 133 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 5-30-07 - Published: 5-30-07

30. alecto reviews

history is a greater divide than the atlantic that lies between us.

Complete - War - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 223 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 5-30-07 - Published: 5-30-07