TagPoetry

We pulled off the highway / because I didn’t know how to turn / the windshield wipers on in my grandpa’s truck[…]

dollop of sour cream […]

What you don’t know doesn’t hurt you / But what you won’t know always will […]

tonight i posted in the subreddit community r/ama and called it ‘im stoned and i have a broken heart AMA’ […]

just a few months ago you were a worm[…]

summer has a way of making me feel small and hard. everything that hurts does so more slowly. somehow i become my migraine […]

Go fishing. Open your can of worms. Stick a hook in the “I promise” note, dated 7th September ‘16. Cast the line. Go deep. Reel it in. Remember the first note she asked you to sign. Remember how […]

(january) snowflakes you for her and me for you (february) confetti made of tiny hearts (march) cherry blossom petals […]

Boiler maker blood popper beat scraper button pusher Badland butchers sourcing downcast trudgers — publicize powerhouses […]

I remember nineteen ninety-six, when I had chubby fingers and chubby toes,
and a heart so whole I had no idea my family was breaking.

I remember the suffocation of humidity; sharp claws around my neck, fucking me slowly.
I tasted the salt in my sweat as it dripped […]

This street
makes her cry.

“On my seventh birthday
I was holding an ice cream cone,
and I dropped it.” […]

I’ve never been in love, yet you seem so familiar
I’m scared I’ve said too much, I’ve never opened up
I know it’s weird, cause we just met, but there’s something about you
I’d like to hold your hand and kiss your cheek beneath a summer moon

Zayn Malik tells Harry, “Look, she’s the only thing

that got me through the touring years, and now

I have to be with her.” Zayn Malik calls me a tempting

animal. Zayn Malik knows he had the best voice […]

Wizened red cedar siding fades
into neighbourhood at the end of my laneway
as subtle as a home after a house-wrecking party.
I walk through decades of tiny moments with
my eye only on his basement window […]