This is a poem about the fact that I have always felt like I am going to die young. Not that I necessarily want to, but that I am quite at peace with it.
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Ginkgo Leaves from Hanna’s Trees
A short story I wrote last year that is fictional but based on reality, and emphasizes the importance of love and the risk of fearing love and letting it go. The trees represent money, art, success, popularity, creativity, places, fashion, pride, and all else; none of that can ever love you back.
For I Have Seen You
This is a poem about not fearing the future, or even death, and crediting that lack of fear to an unnamed other.
I Bleed Henna Red
This is a poem I wrote about lingering on the thoughts of a former love.
Beautifully Twisted Loneliness
This is a poem about when you feel so lonely that you can feel the presence of loneliness, and about how being on your own for a bit might be nice, but then the loneliness catches up to you.
Only A Child
This is a poem I wrote about how Mary was just a child herself when she gave birth to Jesus, and went from a virgin child to the mother of God.
Violet Violins
This is a poem about memories of a former love coming back to me in the sound of the instrument she played.
In A Fairytale
This is a poem I wrote recently using an extensive metaphor of love as a fairtale.
Andrea’s Dawn
This is a poem that I just wrote inspired by a musical track on SoundCloud that my cousin made.
Namesake
This is a poem that I just wrote about my maternal grandfather, after whom I was named.
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