Grace

I never stop to think about how each bolt has to touch down somewhere.

Prosaic

which makes you wonder if you’ll ever happen to lose yourself the way you thought you were lost
when you woke up one day and realized the last 7 days were actually hell without a death
as you wonder when we’ll all be dead

Dependable

“Life isn’t fair. I don’t know who lied and told you otherwise.” It’s not always, ‘roll with the punches, make the best of it, do what you can with the cards you’ve been dealt, shake it off, better luck next time,’ or even ‘third time’s a charm.’ Sometimes, it’s sucks because it just sucks. Like […]

Post-it Obituary

I’m losing you. I’ve already lost you. You are still here with me. How can all three be happening at once? I saw you today for the first time in six months since our first and last goodbye. Before then, it was always see you later. I guess it was inevitable that we would make […]

Something Persistent

She spent 3 weeks in her childhood home. Home that she shared with her parents and one brother for the majority of her animation. A home always full of family, love, provision, and growth. It belongs to her parents and she will never see it as anything else. Over those 21 days and sleepless nights, […]

Veil

Two hours and forty-seven minutes into the next day and you’ve already awoken. Nothing is pouring into your room through the window holding back the stillness of the night. Your mask lays quietly on the floor next to you, almost unrecognizable as the face it was shaped to resemble. Dark shadows and even darker monsters […]

Brethren

We both fell asleep on the couch last night facing opposite directions with our heads leaning on either armrest and a blanket shared between the both of us. I woke you up in the morning to help you make it to school on time. I couldn’t keep awake after you left and I fell asleep […]

Legacy

We celebrated my mom’s birthday today. I found her asleep in a chair across from my dad, also asleep in a chair, in our family room. The fireplace and big screen TV hanging above the mantel work together to form the focal point of that room. I walk through the house when I’m home alone […]

Ferrari

To those who don’t keep their mouths shut. To those who say what they are thinking without relent. To those who let it be known because words are powerful in their own extirpate ways. Two months and nineteen days came and went without a mark in these journal’s pages. Seventy-nine days of holding my tongue […]

Unfolding

Fear Is that time we shot a bottle rocket under the hotel room door Is spinning out the Explorer into a ditch on Youth Camp road in the dead of winter Is standing on top of the furniture store roof looking down at the street Is turning left on a green light before checking oncoming […]