What are you grateful for?
What are you grateful for? Lift your eyes from off the floorAnd examine all that is before you, waiting patiently forContinue Reading
Category: Free Verse
Free flow thoughts that turned into something genuine and beautiful.
We’ve got to
dig dig digto find ourselves:our histories andour truths. Like archaeologistsdigging upold homes andforgotten bones. We’ve got topull pull pullAt everyContinue Reading
The Ticking Clock
Don’t fear the ticking clockJust listen to its rhythm: the way it tick-tick-ticksalong with your heartstrings; the way it explodesContinue Reading
The Slowly Boiling Frog
I sit in a bubbling pot of hot waterand I become a fat, languorous frogboiling away, knowing Death is near.Continue Reading
The Ocean is a Multiverse
When I sail on seas of melted glass,with water so clear each strand of the multiverseis visible to the naked eye, I knowContinue Reading
The Electric-Blue Shock
I’ve become a sunken thing, a cancerous mass of could-have-beens and maybes I lie here…waiting…waiting…waitingfor the electric-blue shock
Resist, Part 2
ImmobilizedEvery soundRoots me more deeplyIn placeDrawers opening, closingPlates lightly touching, carefully stackedYour foot fallEvery beatMatching the quickening paceOf my heartSkinContinue Reading
Red is Blood
You tell me redIs powerIt’s protectingFamily values But all I see is blood.
Old stories and
weary bones hanging off my soul. They weigh me down and slow my pace on this arduously spiny trek towards Continue Reading
My Promises Mean Something
My promises are not like handshakesThey will not touch your palms brieflyThen leave the rest up to chanceOnce parted MyContinue Reading
Alexis Attempts to Write 