Poetry

words associated with alchemy melting together in purple background

Creating The Melting Pot

Because everyone knows yellow pain, pressed into American letters, turns to gold

an orange cat, and a book, lie on a table by an open window, the curtain blowing in the breeze

Employed/Housed/Alive

We think, therefore we err.

3 caps being tossed that read "Dreamer," "Next Steps," and "Graduation"

Dreamer: Fill-in-Poetry

Oh, the places you have been.

Illustration of mortar and pestle

Paints for pigments

They mixed it with yellow ochre, then made the faces of God and their saints.

Illustration of tower

Tower

Sky piercer, rain bringer, unifier, deliverer.

Illustration of a girl's crying face on a pink background

Haiku

tell me tomorrow how the things pretty and nice stay once and not twice

A white, hollow figure laying in a grassy field underneath a blue, cloudy sky.

A Body as Potential

Please. All they had to do was ask, and their body finally listened, digging down and sprouting roots, and they felt whole.

A young person holding a bean like a microphone against a backdrop of flowers, with a blue outline of an individual obscuring the right half of their face.

Afterglow

How can I subtract you from sun? No shade of light would remain intact.

A white cross in a grassy field with a red flower over it.

Sanc·tu·ary

You left the light on and the door open. Authenticity blooms, rooted in the nourishment of its soil.

A window with crows flying in.

The Crows

I wish I had left the windows open and let the crows devour you.