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poetry

goodnight lullaby

as the breast of this whale-sky heaves and sighs, i whisper my heart to the cat’s-eye moon…

Posted on April 24, 2026April 24, 2026 Issue #5

Down by the river

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It is a most peculiar feeling, being treated as an apparition when I am most apparently alive & well.

Posted on April 24, 2026April 24, 2026 Issue #5

Sweet Sixteen

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In these waking dreams, I think of all the things I wish I could have done to you. Like take your clothes off in the cold or kiss you one last time
before all the horses stopped being wild and age domesticated us.

Posted on April 24, 2026April 24, 2026 Issue #5

griefeater

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It started chipping away at cells you know only as yourself.

Posted on April 24, 2026April 24, 2026 Issue #5

On the Waxing of a Molten Moon

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She knows now, there is too much within her, two tongues between her teeth and a universe inside her throat.

Posted on April 24, 2026April 24, 2026 Issue #5

She Blood

how could you resist the charm of
that cathedral of diamond silk,
the allure of the panels of stained glass
octupled in her eyes?

Posted on April 24, 2026April 24, 2026 Issue #5

WHAT WAS THAT

What, what’d you just say?
I didn’t say anything, what do you mean?
I just heard you scream

Posted on April 23, 2026April 23, 2026 Issue #5

Dear Life,

I think I’m falling in love with you.

Posted on December 7, 2025December 11, 2025 Issue #4

alone together

Sorrow’s fingertips shush the last warm light
and the twilight shines pale again.

Posted on November 21, 2025March 18, 2026 BerkeleyIndividual Drop

Ainsley and her permanent spring

Feet cold, pressed on the linoleum floor. 

She feels it all around her,

But not in her.

Not yet.

Posted on July 1, 2024August 3, 2024 PRIDE 2024Toronto

Bosie

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I picture this: two hands 
meet in the darkness, and for a moment, real love existed like
no other had before.

Posted on July 1, 2024August 3, 2024 PRIDE 2024Toronto

Garden Room Reflections

If I had a garden of mirrors  would one tell me what I look like would one tell […]

Posted on August 30, 2022August 30, 2022 Issue #3

Ophelia

Ophelia of the lonely lake, can you hear me as I do you? You are in my mind, […]

Posted on August 30, 2022August 30, 2022 Issue #3

winter air 

you are the cold and frigid; winter air. deprived of warmth and dry on my skin-flaking neck. i […]

Posted on August 30, 2022August 30, 2022 Issue #3

Cut me

A blanket of tranquility with the ability to burn  Vessel of the universe’s infinite stardust  Rim red, around […]

Posted on July 17, 2022September 2, 2022 Issue #2

Intimacy

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and there we were together, in the dark, frantic and fearful. she smelt like sweet hair conditioner and […]

Posted on June 20, 2022April 25, 2023 Issue #1

Second Choice

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i have always been the second choice.  my daddy would choose cigarettes and anger over his little girl […]

Posted on June 18, 2022April 25, 2023 Issue #1
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