Dagnabbit

Turns out, WPForms won’t let me actually access any “Contact Becky” form entries unless I pay for their Pro level (almost $200 and skipping over several other plan options). After trying several things, I sadly have not been able to recover any of the info the “Contact Becky” form collected. …

Sooty Lashes

When I was younger And staring into the heat of  Flames I created Camping I forget with who or  Exactly when I got too close and Didn’t realize Until much later My eyelashes singed  Short, like the bristles of A beard They grew back My brief concern, like all my …

In Its Proper Place

My boyfriend can compartmentalize pain. He labels, organizes, and files it away. An unnecessary inconvenience – easily managed – that occupies the space it’s supposed to.  Which makes the sweat pooling on his brow and the distant look in his eye all that more terrifying and impossible to understand.  When …

The Singularity

Why don’t dying suns Have anxiety? Maybe they do Built up, bubbling, pressure Moments from explosion The density  Of responsibility And thermonuclear fusion Creates mass  Carried effortlessly  By nothing and everything  The tipping point between  A black hole  And everything we know

Surrounded

There are these trees in Sydney that captivate an essence. They erupt forth from their massive centers, branches hurtling for the sky, touching it and falling short all at once. Dark white bark envelopes this creature like pale, leathery skin; joyously aged. Your cacophony of limbs wraps around me, oh …

Friend Gone

A friend goneNot for the first time, but the last He skipped after Alice down the rabbit holeShrieking with laughterHe got lost in high darknessfound no happily ever after Years of memories, words unspokenHearts shattered and friendships brokenLost souls fit in stolen walletsHome and bed became alleyway pallets He couldn’t …

The Clip

While cleaning, Martha found something she’d forgotten all about. Her purple hair clip from elementary school. The big, plastic kind that snaps back and forth – open, closed, open, closed. When Martha recognized what it was, she paused… then sat down. She fingered the object in her hands idly as …

Florida Man

Tim was born in Arlington, VA, but he’s Californian through and through. He’d already been questioning his decision to move to Florida from San Diego when the rumbling began. Ice shook in cocktail glasses and half-drunk patrons vaguely shot questioning glances around them. Tim paused for a moment mid-shrug, then …

Death

Where do we go when we dieif all we’re doing is dying then maybe we’re already there. Where does dying decide to be, if deciding – doing – does. Does doing mean we’re dying too, or only distracting from doing – death? If dying doing does decide, to do a …

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