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1. Not reviews

Briefly, a mother wonders—in between folding Ralph Lauren polos and yelling at the dog over her shoulder—about that bottle-blonde with the pug nose,

Poetry: Family - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 127 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 3-12-13 - Complete

2. White lies reviews

I fell in love on the steps of the chapel; or at least, that's how we told the story in the months to come,

Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 126 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 3-12-13 - Complete

3. To name a soul reviews

I am one of few who know the name of your soul, and sometimes that tempts me to scream it into a crowd until I can't make another sound, to toss it out for the wind to carry away, for strangers' hungry ears to devour as they please

Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 103 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 3-12-13 - Complete

4. Do you remember music?

Not that racket when you throw your hands on the keys, wringing your voice out of its shell, stomping the pedals, cutting your spirit with chords that cringe with every dissonance—

Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Hurt/Comfort/Family - Chapters: 1 - Words: 83 - Published: 2-22-13 - Complete

5. Only air

You're too heavy to carry, though your soul is only air.

Poetry: Friendship - Rated: K - English - Hurt/Comfort/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 52 - Published: 2-22-13 - Complete

6. Day

I consider the shadows under your eyes, embedded like scars, red-rimmed.

Poetry: Friendship - Rated: K - English - Hurt/Comfort/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 48 - Published: 2-22-13 - Complete

7. The child lies in bed asleep reviews

and so she cannot know, beside her head, her father prays that she might wisely grow.

Poetry: Family - Rated: K - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 70 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 12-25-12 - Complete

8. I knew the light could never fail

Rays struck my eyes, which I at once feared they must blinded be, yet realized after that brief pain that finally they did see.

Poetry: Religion - Rated: K - English - Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 132 - Published: 12-25-12 - Complete

9. Made of ink reviews

We're dripping it into public sinks and all along the sidewalks.

Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 84 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 9-17-12 - Complete

10. She holds me like the sun

with a grimace of pain, sighs escaping her lips from the burns I leave on her soft palms,

Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Hurt/Comfort/Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 63 - Published: 9-1-12 - Complete

11. Either Side of Heaven reviews

My most recent original song. "On either side of Heaven you're my brother; on either side of Heaven we had no one but each other. I don't regret a day, and I pray the same for you - all's forgiven, no matter what you do..." A link to the YouTube video is on my profile. Inspired by the TV show "Supernatural", but you don't need to watch it to understand.

Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Hurt/Comfort/Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 279 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 8-9-12 - Complete

12. Little ghosts reviews

Hands are ghosts that linger longer past their final breath, hanging airborne to tie knots on skin that will anchor them to earth.

Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Hurt/Comfort/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 43 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 8-6-12 - Complete

13. Save yourself reviews

From the other side of the table, a tight-jawed father ordered his daughter to "save herself." Her head bobbed in a quick submission and she hardly thought to ask, "what for?"

Poetry: Family - Rated: K - English - Family/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 97 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 8-5-12 - Complete

14. Church mother reviews

Soft nudges towards eternity

Poetry: Religion - Rated: K - English - Family/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 36 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 8-5-12 - Complete

15. Heartstrings reviews

Remembering

Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Hurt/Comfort/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 27 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 7-28-12 - Complete

16. Voice reviews

but sometimes, just sometimes, your breath isn't your breath; its whispers aren't sweet, but bitter, and its hands are rough—no softness is felt on my skin;

Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Hurt/Comfort/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 82 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 7-28-12 - Complete

17. The way you'd renovate a ruined house reviews

We want, and don't want, to be fixed.

Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 211 - Reviews: 8 - Published: 7-27-12 - Complete

18. Morning after reviews

And what I would have given to return that embrace, squeeze her four-foot frame to spin her around the air, laughing until we couldn't breathe as she kissed my cheek.

Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Family/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 140 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 7-27-12 - Complete

19. He's the kid reviews

and the cold that persists past its time;

Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 35 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 7-27-12 - Complete

20. Write like you reviews

Scrawling letters into other skins, syllables carved in aching gashes, ripping wildflowers out of the dirt to etch metaphors with a jagged nail,

Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 56 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 7-27-12 - Complete

21. What you give to me is soluable

a missed heartbeat disappearing into blood, a recognizable quiet, blank speech bubbles above a sea of strangers.

Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Hurt/Comfort/Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 178 - Published: 7-27-12 - Complete

22. Observations

I like this less every time I read it. Give me a break; it's not an easy subject.

Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Tragedy/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 192 - Published: 7-27-12 - Complete

23. Mother II reviews

She looks so much like her mother, wide eyes cringed against the darkness,

Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Family/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 50 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 7-20-12 - Complete

24. Empty reviews

There's a bird crying tonight.

Poetry: Nature - Rated: K - English - Hurt/Comfort/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 46 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 7-20-12 - Complete

25. Yet none compare

There is this beautiful breathing on the other end of the line.

Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Hurt/Comfort/Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 28 - Published: 7-17-12 - Complete

26. Have I told you, Love

about the dream I used to have before I really knew you? Or at least, then, it seemed a dream — I'd be in bed but then sit up and my heart would sink to realize own consciousness.

Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 267 - Published: 7-14-12 - Complete

27. Asleep, he writes reviews

in beads of sweat that gather at his forehead, in curled palms drawn up tight to the crook of his neck,

Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 52 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 7-13-12 - Complete

28. Testimony reviews

You have never known a man until he has knelt at your feet and washed them. This is not a metaphor, not a Biblical allusion, but a completely literal testimony.

Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 171 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 7-8-12 - Complete

29. Reasons reviews

I used to tell myself that I washed my mouth out with soap to rinse out the taste of her tongue on mine - that scrubbing until the pale skin swelled red would erase her lips, her hips, in mine

Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Angst/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 87 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 7-7-12 - Complete

30. My poetry doesn't hear him anymore reviews

doesn't echo the murmur of Shakespearean tragedies under his breath at midnight and curses hurled at the innocent night sky; no longer cringes at the sound of his name or bears the indentations that remain of his cold husk twisted beneath white sheets

Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Angst/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 148 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 7-7-12 - Complete

31. Evening reviews

The shuddering firmament spewed out elegiac clouds as a crippled crow waited for rain, and hoped for heaven's tears to rinse away every evidence of sin, while the frantic thunder cried an unrequited prayer.

Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 99 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 7-7-12 - Complete

32. Romans 12 » reviews

A collection of poems related to the Biblical passage, some more loosely than others, as they affect the life of one semi-professional pianist.

Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 23 - Words: 1,763 - Reviews: 7 - Updated: 7-6-12 - Published: 6-26-12

33. The men who taught me hope reviews

were barely any more than a couple of kids with organ shoes thumping together in bags slung over their shoulders, always.

Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 84 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 7-6-12 - Complete

34. Dreams of Mending reviews

Perhaps in your unraveling, you'd notice how very lightly they press, the tears that spring to their eyes upon the sight of another pile of shards heaped together in the faintest corner of your heart.

Poetry: Religion - Rated: K - English - Hurt/Comfort/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 304 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 7-6-12 - Complete

35. Separate cages reviews

Often our fingers touch in sleep or half-enlace; often I've breathed easier through some dream by a gentle grasp. Last night I woke, though, to your hand across mine in an unfamiliar, twisted position that seemed so removed, so strangely external.

Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Hurt/Comfort/Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 268 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 7-3-12 - Complete

36. The strike reviews

As one would command a child or dog, repeating the same orders in a raised voice, "Sit, be still, hush," thrusting a pointed finger at the floor, don't we reprimand ourselves?

Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 225 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 7-3-12 - Complete

37. Lost in translation reviews

the moon sheds tears of shame

Poetry: Nature - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 26 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 7-3-12 - Complete

38. Writing about Angels reviews

I used to write about angels lounging in church pews and strolling through the back alleys of New York like they owned the place, the way their hands would slide like light through a crying child's or their boneless jaws would tighten when someone shook their fist at the sky.

Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Supernatural/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 218 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 7-2-12 - Complete

39. You can hold my hand reviews

The cracks in my ceiling caught my interest as I stared for the better half of the night, humming a tune to remind myself that I was awake.

Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Hurt/Comfort/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 97 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 7-1-12 - Complete

40. Uncertainty reviews

you satisfy the silence with hurried pulses of my heart and the certainty of yours

Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Angst/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 33 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 7-1-12 - Complete

41. Pretty words and collarbones reviews

I'll hang pretty words like a magpie's collection from my ribs and my collarbones, to dance in the breeze of each laboured breath and rustle together in a dischordant melody of memories and the carcasses of hopes and dreams.

Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 87 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 6-29-12 - Complete

42. To Heal Another reviews

An open wound, I ached and shuddered and never quite raised my voice above a murmur, and somehow I thought I could heal another wound that gaped wider than myself

Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Friendship/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 158 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 6-25-12 - Complete

43. You'll never see the whole sun reviews

Something's always lost to you

Poetry: Nature - Rated: K - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 60 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 6-25-12 - Complete

44. Ambulance

if you've ever ridden in an ambulance you'd know that you're always in the wrong place you should be driving, you know, since you're always saying it doesn't really hurt

Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Tragedy/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 153 - Published: 6-25-12 - Complete

45. Inside music reviews

I curled up and crawled between the pipes, body shaking with the vibrations of harmonies and each note's voice

Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 49 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 6-25-12 - Complete

46. The silence reviews

It crawls into the folds of our skin, it drips down trees, it fills canyons, it stops up holes in punched train tickets, it's a thin film over the night, and it locks us into a snapshot with the stamp of a camera flash and

Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 113 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 6-16-12 - Complete

47. Wish reviews

the sky is peeling off in sheets of scattered blue, like the tears in your eyes as you try to blink it back and i wonder what good the effort does us anymore.

Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 68 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 6-16-12 - Complete

48. Flowers reviews

the guy at the door has flowers and you know they're for you and you should say thank you but he isn't welcome

Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Angst/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 92 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 6-16-12 - Complete

49. Nights in Utica

Only a fool would place her prayers in the faith of murmuring insects and the crack of light under chewed wood.

Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 37 - Published: 6-11-12 - Complete

50. Thanking my Father for Piano Lessons reviews

The moment of lifting your hands above the keys, floating in that space when the butterflies in your stomach finally pause in awe of a power you don't understand: the moment you raise your voice and they listen... Semi-autobiographical.

Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Family/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 859 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 6-8-12 - Complete

51. A million more suns reviews

We wear masks when in reality we consist of no more than water and light.

Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 53 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 6-7-12 - Complete

52. The most beautiful reviews

She asked me to write her the most beautiful melody that I could imagine, and I have never stopped working on it since.

Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 71 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 6-7-12 - Complete

53. Until I was wanted reviews

I didn't really want to wear that dress but I flashed and flirted and flaunted until I was wanted because I felt that was what the moment called for. I didn't really want to go out but I laughed and I drank and I shone until almost half past one because I felt that was what the moment called for.

Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Angst/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 189 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 6-7-12 - Complete

54. Old composer reviews

A candle perched on the corner of his desk, throwing light off the walls and daring to approach the shadows under his eyes. Quivering over the parchment, his pen lands at last to sketch another set of bar lines and a minute's worth of notes.

Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Family - Chapters: 1 - Words: 92 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 6-6-12 - Complete

55. Mortality reviews

When we first met, you said you knew then that we were perfect for one another, two like-minded mortals that sought immortality. You were not wrong to say that we were like-minded, but this perfection has torn us open, wounds each trying to heal the other,

Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Angst/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 107 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 6-6-12 - Complete

56. Has music ever saved anyone? reviews

Then I will withdraw, and return as sound.

Poetry: Friendship - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 31 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 6-6-12 - Complete

57. Mother reviews

Whispering a desperate incantation before a mother I never knew, I imagine Mary purses her lips in disappointment, wondering why I've bothered to collapse on my knees in a puddle on the side of the street and call her now,

Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 80 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 6-6-12 - Complete

58. A Question For You reviews

She did not hear the tangled letters trip off my trembling tongue, tiny protests tumbling after each other, nor pin my shoulders to the wooden frame of the bed on which she did not shove me down, but laid like a child to rest

Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 174 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 6-6-12 - Complete

59. Jail reviews

Trapped inside this self-house, alone in a jail, immured by a wall in which no sound feels home

Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Angst/Crime - Chapters: 1 - Words: 38 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 6-5-12 - Complete

60. Woman reviews

Her body lies bare—open; her skin, white-washed in the milk of a thousand lovers

Poetry: Family - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 34 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 6-3-12 - Complete

61. Sunlight would kiss reviews

each thread of my pillow tenderly on early spring mornings, and the wood grain of your kitchen cabinets would imitate my fingerprints. While the rays streaked in slanted rows on fertile fields, highlighting wrinkled hollows where the cotton grows, I'd pray, as shy and subtle flecks of iris emerged between dew-moistened fringe in apple groves.

Poetry: Nature - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 81 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 6-3-12 - Complete

62. Young composer

In this house, laden with wood that creaks louder with every step, matted with grass and fur, reeking of smoke that curls up from the fireplace, the boy tucked his feet under the corner of the couch and flipped through countless pages.

Poetry: Family - Rated: K - English - Hurt/Comfort/Family - Chapters: 1 - Words: 95 - Published: 6-3-12 - Complete

63. Symbiosis

I wish I was the stars that witnessed us that night.

Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 51 - Published: 6-3-12 - Complete

64. A thought reviews

I imagine that one day, we'll spill over into each other,

Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 33 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 6-3-12 - Complete

65. Like a thief whose crime has been discovered reviews

"breathing in ragged gasps, heart thumping like an animal's in failed attempts at composure." An old piece that, unfortunately, became relevant again, so I revived it.

Poetry: Friendship - Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 80 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 6-1-12 - Complete

66. Courtney reviews

"There in the pews of the chapel, crouched on the steps outside in its defense, behind the pipes of that great organ which our ears strained to hear, kneeling on the floorboards that creaked in reply to every prayer, whispering melodies from her native country, I found her." A very personal poem written for a close friend.

Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Hurt/Comfort/Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 329 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 5-31-12 - Complete

67. Miscarriage reviews

there is the absence she feels, sometimes, on cold sunday mornings when the rain makes a sheet of blurs on her window

Poetry: Family - Rated: K - English - Tragedy/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 114 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 5-31-12 - Complete

68. Songstress reviews

Less like a love story & more like a creation myth.

Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 32 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 5-31-12 - Complete

69. Light reviews

He was able to cradle her in the palm of his hand,

Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 25 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 5-31-12 - Complete

70. Innocent reviews

We can spend tonight pretending we are innocent, laying on white sheets, touching no more than one another's hands. We will make a pile for our bigger sins in the corner of the room

Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Angst/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 70 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 5-30-12 - Complete

71. I will never let her know reviews

how much of me she unraveled, strands lying in knotted piles where I shoved them in my closet.

Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Angst/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 107 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 5-30-12 - Complete

72. Sun reviews

Sweet thing, I watch you burn so quickly that it frightens me. You cannot come so close.

Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 64 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 5-30-12 - Complete

73. You might have been a music reviews

all your own, or at the very least a living conduit, a rod through which music shot like lightning, your spirit pouring out songs like a storm that surged into mine

Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Angst/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 68 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 5-30-12 - Complete

74. No sight quite compares to sleep reviews

No sight quite compares to sleep, tension floating up past his forehead, the wheels at last grinding to a halt, hands slackening their grip against the notebook, the raging choir in his head quieting to a murmur in harmony, eyeballs roaming one world in which I am not privy, the soft cotton of his shirt pressing into my shoulder.

Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 88 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 5-30-12 - Complete

75. what if reviews

The two most curious words in English are "what" and "if" – innocent enough in solitude, but paired together, they latch on like magnets in the back of your brain. They burn under the surface of your skin, where the real wounds still smolder.

Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 81 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 5-30-12 - Complete

76. I remember reviews

almost nothing from my elementary years. Holes the size of six years, tumors in my brain, drowning all but bits and pieces of bad days:

Poetry: Family - Rated: K+ - English - Angst/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 131 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 5-30-12 - Complete

77. You promised me a symphony reviews

...

Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Angst/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 48 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 5-30-12 - Complete

78. Forget

He stared so far out the window, memorizing the pattern of trees as they swept before his eyes

Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 49 - Published: 5-30-12 - Complete

79. Lately God and I reviews

we haven't been on speaking terms. I mean, if lately can mean since the night I stopped trusting these hands of mine, the night you finally collapsed into a string of notes and restless poetry

Poetry: Religion - Rated: K - English - Angst/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 143 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 5-30-12 - Complete

80. Accompanist reviews

Her fingers firmly stroke the keys as her blood begins to flow and warm them to the very ends. They loosen, weaving strands of silver filament, a web of desire. She feels his eyes caress her neck, the tiny dip behind her collarbone, the curve of her spine.

Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 110 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 5-30-12 - Complete

81. Defy reviews

i wish we could defy every judgment, every cruel declaration of our inevitable failure, but the sky is peeling off in sheets of scattered blue

Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 70 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 5-30-12 - Complete

82. If I were an angel

I wonder, would I look down and shake my head at her?

Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Hurt/Comfort/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 93 - Published: 5-30-12 - Complete

83. a history of stars

wishes, fingers grasping vaguely at shimmering gossamer strands, tangled among heartstrings, not one of them entirely making sense...

Poetry: Nature - Rated: K - English - Hurt/Comfort/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 64 - Published: 5-30-12 - Complete

84. No one told me

I had fallen in love with the sky. They could've saved me so much time, weeping with the summer showers, shivering in the late October evenings.

Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 61 - Published: 5-30-12 - Complete

85. Adam

She exists through the part of me she stole. I stroke the bone on her body, wish to mold it back again to mine.

Poetry: Religion - Rated: K - English - Romance/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 61 - Published: 5-29-12 - Complete

86. Things I would say reviews

to my ten-year-old self:

Poetry: Family - Rated: K+ - English - Angst/Family - Chapters: 1 - Words: 127 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 5-29-12 - Complete

87. Sleepsong

Hands will clasp in silent prayer, alone with love tonight, embarking on a voyage fair till dream and day unite.

Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 92 - Published: 5-29-12 - Complete

88. The heart is right to cry reviews

Just sit a moment, right here, by my side.

Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 74 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 5-29-12 - Complete

89. My spirit was poised for flight

burning with anticipation for the heights it would take over friends and family, ready to soar above truth and failure.

Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 55 - Published: 5-29-12 - Complete

90. Last night I saw angels

sitting in the church pews, arms draped across the balcony. I should like to ask God if, after that long journey downward, they couldn't bear to float the few extra steps to ground level.

Poetry: Religion - Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 178 - Published: 5-28-12 - Complete

91. I sat in the back pew

and nodded off to the sound of him practicing the organ. Occasionally he shook me into consciousness with a chord that made the floorboards tremble, and towards the end we both sang to the hymns, our voices carrying over the flood of those towering pipes.

Poetry: Friendship - Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 127 - Published: 5-28-12 - Complete

92. It is far too early reviews

to fall back against the pillows

Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 54 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 5-28-12 - Complete

93. Today fell reviews

at my feet and begged me not to go through with any of it

Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 26 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 5-28-12 - Complete

94. Little shrines reviews

Some people build little shrines on the side of the road to rules, miles of scrolls that detail every law to the letter.

Poetry: Religion - Rated: K - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 70 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 5-28-12 - Complete

95. One song

There is only one song worth slaving for hours each day to perfect, drawing and erasing sketches of my finest piece,

Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 47 - Published: 5-28-12 - Complete

96. Family

You see the same coffee girl with the same forced conversation, the same bartender with the same tattoo

Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 61 - Published: 5-28-12 - Complete

97. On paperthin evenings

We would sculpt light out of the silence and hang it up in the sky to wish upon.

Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Friendship/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 67 - Published: 5-28-12 - Complete

98. Four feet tall

Wide eyes darted to my father for some explanation, his face as blank as God's.

Poetry: Religion - Rated: T - English - Angst/Family - Chapters: 1 - Words: 540 - Published: 5-28-12 - Complete

99. Principle reviews

There is nothing harder than burying yourself, surrounded by family, and watching them nod in turn as their eyes glaze over and fix at a point on the horizon.

Poetry: Family - Rated: K - English - Angst/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 121 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 5-26-12 - Complete

100. Forgive me Father for I have sinned reviews

I have questioned You and Your mysterious ways — as though someone invisible should be enigmatic as well to prove a point.

Poetry: Religion - Rated: K+ - English - Spiritual/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 101 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 5-26-12 - Complete

101. Before I was born reviews

my father strung paper stars from my ceiling.

Poetry: Religion - Rated: K - English - Family/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 73 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 5-26-12 - Complete

102. Notes on loneliness reviews

Don't run away so quickly from loneliness. Let it sink into your skin, fester like a wound, settle into your bones.

Poetry: Religion - Rated: K - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 61 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 5-26-12 - Complete

103. If I had been an artist reviews

I would have painted you canvases of swirling colors swoops of light and blooming flowers.

Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 128 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 5-26-12 - Complete

104. January reviews

i caught a glimpse of you from the outside curled up on the sofa, breathing in the scented candles your sisters bought

Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Romance/Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 59 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 5-26-12 - Complete

105. Collin II

We break each other and sweep each porcelain remainder under the rug and try to forget.

Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Angst/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 34 - Published: 5-26-12 - Complete

106. Want reviews

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Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 81 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 5-26-12 - Complete

107. Silenced

I dangle in the space between one note and the next,

Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 24 - Published: 5-26-12 - Complete

108. John reviews

While everyone else laughed and threw stones

Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 21 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 5-26-12 - Complete

109. Sister reviews

I would do it, you know - hold your heart with mine, if I could...

Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 89 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 5-26-12 - Complete

110. Collin

he doesn't want to be anything but my hero and savior, and i can't break him and tell him

Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Angst/Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 35 - Published: 5-26-12 - Complete

111. Wells reviews

Here's the thing about wells: none of them are bottomless.

Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Angst/Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 209 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 5-26-12 - Complete

112. she was velvet reviews

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Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 103 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 5-26-12 - Complete

113. I talked to my father reviews

on the phone just now, and at first his voice was foreign and terrifying –

Poetry: Family - Rated: K+ - English - Angst/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 104 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 5-26-12 - Complete

114. What are we going to do today? reviews

In my childhood mornings, I rolled over to block out the light, and with a groan, I wondered, "What am I going to do today?"

Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 73 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 5-26-12 - Complete

115. Strings

Forgive these sighs - I am a key in the piano that God plays

Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 35 - Published: 5-26-12 - Complete

116. John and God

To love a man is to say:

Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Romance/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 76 - Published: 5-24-12 - Complete

117. David reviews

He never left the house without that notepad, spiral- bound with the brown cover.

Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Family/Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 69 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 5-24-12 - Complete

118. Purity ball

Stay white, they said

Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 14 - Published: 5-24-12 - Complete

119. Every day, people are born reviews

You probably already know this.

Poetry: Family - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 138 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 5-24-12 - Complete

120. after I had been deaf a week reviews

I woke to my sister singing in my ear

Poetry: Family - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 53 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 5-24-12 - Complete

121. We Were Strangers

Once, I think, we must have been.

Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 87 - Published: 5-24-12 - Complete

122. Communion reviews

Only after He had broken my body...

Poetry: Religion - Rated: K - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 22 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 5-24-12 - Complete

123. Tidal reviews

Every year, the moon drifts off by four centimeters, the moon that tames the tides from a million miles away and holds those starving arms from swallowing up the Earth. I don't fear for you and I. I fear for the tide.

Poetry: Love - Rated: T - English - Angst/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 324 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 5-24-12 - Complete

124. I have a friend who doesn't believe in music reviews

Admittedly I must seem rather strange to him, waking every sunrise to bow over eighty-eight black and white lines in the hopes that I might offer up my soul to a crowd of strangers from the stage.

Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Angst/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 280 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 5-16-12 - Complete

125. laugh lines reviews

as always, when you smile, I notice lines at the creases of your eyes.

Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 36 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 3-15-12 - Complete

126. my name belonged to her first

Flipping through ancient laminated pages, I wonder about the sound of her voice

Poetry: Family - Rated: K - English - Angst/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 138 - Published: 3-15-12 - Complete

127. Once, I slapped him

hard enough to draw blood. Of course I spent the next half hour on my knees, red welts lining my spine.

Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Family/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 81 - Published: 3-15-12 - Complete

128. Father reviews

He is washing my mouth out with soap.

Poetry: Family - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 136 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 3-15-12 - Complete

129. In this house

In this house, laden with wood that creaks louder with every step, matted with grass and fur, reeking of smoke that curls up from the fireplace, the boy tucked his feet under the corner of the couch and flipped through countless pages.

Poetry: Family - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 86 - Published: 3-15-12 - Complete

130. how human you are

The air speaks louder than us, brushing my cheek on occasion.

Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 33 - Published: 3-15-12 - Complete

131. symphony

crooked notes scrawled into the bedsheets

Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 124 - Published: 3-15-12 - Complete

132. It didn't know, I think, of what it was

An angel stumbled through the sky and landed on my wrist; it gazed up at me with golden eyes.

Poetry: Fantasy - Rated: K - English - Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 75 - Published: 3-15-12 - Complete

133. misery loves company reviews

my heart once wept in solitude, and so it sought another.

Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 22 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 3-15-12 - Complete

134. maybe love wasn't the right word for it

most days he fixed the sky a little

Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 30 - Published: 3-15-12 - Complete

135. morse code

Even as he promised, his eyes tapped out some other message

Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 28 - Published: 3-15-12 - Complete

136. A Man and a Girl reviews

I saw a man with a girl today. She slipped and fell on the flat. Swept in his arms where he kissed her tears, she smiled and that was that...

Poetry: Family - Rated: K - English - Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 83 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 6-14-11 - Complete

137. Scripted reviews

First draft of a song that sounds better with music. "Child grasps my outstretched hand, I can smile on demand. Laughter bursts throughout the room, but faking laughter's easy too."

Poetry: Song - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 76 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 3-5-11 - Complete

138. The Ocean Street

An ottava rima. "We danced as if with waves, the rise and fall defining where we stepped, he in his thrall..."

Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 69 - Published: 11-22-10 - Complete

139. Shoved up in the corner there

Unrolling scrolls of things to fear, it shudders as I creep up near.

Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 28 - Published: 11-22-10 - Complete

140. Dust and Dust reviews

Skin and blood and flesh and bone, I will not atone.

Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Supernatural/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 70 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 8-29-10 - Complete

141. morning glory reviews

without even a second glance the morning embraces groans of denial, ruffled hair, twisted blankets/outstretches arms to poke the bees awake and goodbyes the moon

Poetry: Nature - Rated: K - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 71 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 8-19-10 - Complete

142. imagine

that her tears evaporate into pieces of the sky & her eyelashes against the shell of an ear tickle as they shudder...

Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 112 - Published: 8-19-10 - Complete

143. electrified

drums pulse like the rhythm of something larger than ourselves

Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 63 - Published: 7-18-10 - Complete

144. Today

Beautiful it is the trembling hand penciling a thick line, the black coat on the lash, the smack of red lips.

Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 194 - Published: 7-14-10 - Complete

145. the Revolution, He calls it

every last one chokes down their selves, numb to the insanity of it all.

Poetry: Religion - Rated: K+ - English - Angst/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 216 - Published: 5-28-10 - Complete

146. Worth Its Weight in Solitude

the kindly buzz of static

Poetry: Friendship - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 56 - Published: 5-24-10 - Complete

147. Distilled reviews

without you, how would i know to run from my reflection, walk with my sight fixed on the street, always wear long sleeves, or how fast i can gnaw my fingernails to bits?

Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 127 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 4-1-10 - Complete

148. empty condolences & halfhearted pats on the back reviews

Written in the aftermath of a suicide; this doesn't even begin to do justice. empty condolences & halfhearted pats on the back just rub salt in the wound...

Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Tragedy/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 157 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 3-4-10 - Complete

149. Sonnet IX reviews

Much like the midnight is my love for thee/Where merely while most sleep does it emerge/For its existence rests where none can see/And vanishes when dream and day converge.

Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 115 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 1-28-10 - Complete

150. The Great Depression reviews

Oneshot concerning a homeless woman whose husband seems to have vanished...

Fiction: General - Rated: K - English - Hurt/Comfort/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,346 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 1-16-10 - Complete

151. Sonnet VII

The sweetest song, whene'er your lips do part/To serenade with all your gentle song/Hath struck me as the softest dart/A siren's call that never leadeth wrong.

Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 110 - Published: 1-12-10

152. Sonnet VI: An Absent Lover reviews

No rising sun or new day's dawn will tempt my mood/A frozen state of mind without its muse/For in thine absence I am prone to brood/My journal tattered so from overuse.

Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 112 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 1-11-10 - Complete

153. Sonnet IV reviews

Our love may be the rarest rose/That ever deigned to bloom, a bond/Conceived to challenge all man's prose/Defying words and reaching far beyond.

Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 101 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 1-10-10 - Complete

154. Sonnet III reviews

To walk with me on every road/To shower me with endless gifts/In every way, Your words bestowed/A perfect love that never drifts.

Poetry: Religion - Rated: K - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 89 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 1-10-10 - Complete

155. Nights When I Love Me

...almost there.

Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 119 - Published: 12-12-09 - Complete

156. Mistranslation reviews

Forgive me.

Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Angst/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 77 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 7-10-09

157. Sonnet I reviews

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Poetry: Love - Rated: T - English - Crime/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 128 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 7-9-09

158. forGIVENess reviews

is the greatest gift.

Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Hurt/Comfort/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 72 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 4-23-09 - Complete

159. i wouldn't have wished this on anyone reviews

you have committed to memory the rise, the fall of my chest, faster as you approach.

Poetry: Friendship - Rated: K - English - Angst/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 196 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 3-3-09 - Complete

160. Weights reviews

So much pressure! Needed to vent a little.

Poetry: Work - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 68 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 11-10-08 - Complete

161. i ask for a different hand reviews

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Poetry: Friendship - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 103 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 9-2-08 - Complete

162. Who is Hiding? reviews

That void in your eyes, I saw it today.

Poetry: Friendship - Rated: K+ - English - Angst/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 62 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 8-7-08 - Complete

163. Someone Else reviews

Because that's not really me, right?

Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 110 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 5-15-08 - Complete

164. Park Bench reviews

I wanted to do something completely different.

Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 102 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 4-20-08 - Complete

165. Unfeeling reviews

Wouldn't it be better if no one here could feel?

Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 65 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 4-20-08 - Complete

166. The Fireman reviews

Just a short poem.

Poetry: Work - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 67 - Reviews: 9 - Published: 4-19-08 - Complete

167. A Boat at Sea reviews

Alone in the ocean.

Poetry: Nature - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 140 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 4-18-08 - Complete