THE EIDOLON

School, what an amazing invention  Where kids are stuffed into classes  And fed information When we get home and our parents ask  “How...

These cuts Were like hickeys Love marks Across my body  They made constellations The scars you gave me Became the sky you promised

I'll never find you over a crescent hill you disappear on your way to make an unfathomable escape in infant time a spruce in the cradled...

Poem used: Edge | The Poetry Foundation The woman is perfected. My steps creep closer to the woman lying on the stone-plated road. A...

1. Success at Last  A poem about being overly prepared for a test  I put all my notes away  All the papers I have used For countless days...

Warning: Self-harm They don’t tell you that sacrilege is only fun if you're beautiful. On the inside, maybe not. If you took a knife to...

(1) In which a person contemplates their friendship in light of their mistakes I don’t know why I hate myself so much. Maybe because I...

i choke as lukewarm water slides between my lips, bolting upwards with a splash. the drain is clogged. hair. I am pulling Hair from my...

I'm a Doctor Continue  Professor of lovers covenant  Drink your medicine  I will cure you.  There's a false of discontinue  A patient to...

October 16th, 1966 They call my grandmother the queen of the park. Her name is Blythe Bainbridge and she will be eighty years old in...

Cowbirds are birds belonging to the genus Molothrus in the family Icteridae.  Your name betrays your nature Your size betrays your nature...

I ran through the trees, desperately trying to escape that environment as fast as I could and throw off the feeling it left behind. I...

On a sultry August morning Just 30 minutes to noon I was born in the bustling compartments Of NYU hospital Taken home in a swaddle In...

As the world gets dark The world gets quiet. But the lake still stirs, And the crepe myrtle blossoms Its summer colors. As a bird soars...

The squirrel stares into the closet and the closet stares back. 9:57 9:56 They walk in circles around the hallways, left, left, left,...

there's a reason honeymoons are normally never more than 2 weeks or 3 weeks. how much is too much, you need to ask yourself that. you get...

I met someone I’ve been looking for A dream that I had already dreamed His touch was warm, but then turned heavy Lingering in places I...