For Mary

"beautiful you : faithless I With your face in my hands and all but my thumbs immersed among your hair a tear slipped from the slate and trickled beneath my palm beautiful you and faithless I watchi..."

"Naked something tells me there is more to you than your gaudy jewelry and sycophantic smile your double-knotted laces and your overcooked style your cautious way of driving and how you’re always str..."

"you shouldn’t be afraidyou shouldn’t look awayfrom me wearing this mask that I’ve madewith sparkles and pretty thingsand eyes for you, see?you shouldn’t be afraidyou shouldn’t talk that wayyou shouldn..."

"there are people who break people who love people who break. there are people with wings and people without. there are some who search and some who find people with wings and people without there are ..."

"drawing curtains stirs the dust and ancient demons left for dead that never came or went I am mother’s suffered youth the shifting skies of childhood pass illuminated scenes of hidden lies surroundin..."

"sun splitting through my hair every fragile strand alike in subtle ways as your feldspar eyes knock on doors my soul always denies pressing blushing lips to you it almost escapes with you’re all that..."