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on the evening of december 23, 2015
i crawled into your arms for the first time

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We save ourselves, our richness, our honey, for ghosts that never come. And we miss each other. Again, and again.

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When she pushes me onto the couch and straddles my thighs, I feel like Atlas with his quivering heart

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The other held her so tight, she could recognize the different patterns of the beats in their naked breasts – while hers was pounding and craving, the other’s was calm and receiving.

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Maybe
We are better broken by each other

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Wake up,
today you are not texting back your friends
even when they say
that they are filing a missing person’s report

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I am not whole enough to be able to fill your vacancy.
The truth is, you deserve greater and
so much more— and that, I am not.

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We hurt people because life is made up of choices, and with every choice is a possibility that someone will be hurt by the outcome.