In the Summer of ‘24, I was set upon by thoughts and feelings that beckoned to become words. Tales of anticipation, mundane tasks, aimless wandering,
My love, tell me why you will not speak of the dead brown children in Gaza tonight Do you, not mourn me As I wade
In the faraway nightscape, where the stars make funny shapes I somehow see you clearly, even on the cloudiest nights Eighty-eight constellations, and yours is
Warmth is folded away as unwilling prey,Wrapped in worn, fading memories,Swathed in subtropical musings.Warmth is stashed in a den by Orion’s bard,By the hunter that
we’re drinking strawberry flavoured wine out of red solo cups and I can’t help but notice the hair you move out of her face, she’s
Snow tires trudge through grey slush as headlights interrogate the blizzard that has murdered the warmth of the sun and my shadow melts through the
Below. I float forth, Aimlessly through the dark. Night is a cloak, night is indifferent, But you hide during the day. Where in the lights
I woke at midnight from a pleasant dream Where I was not myself in all but mind; When, grafted to a far more fruitful tree,
Rolling Into April By: Neruka Joseph Never before had he thought of Going dancing along a London bridge To prove to his lover that he
When we were little the most bitter taste we knew was the black coffee mommy and daddy drank at the kitchen table. Every morning the
Ahoy dear captain and welcome on board Here is your hat and here is your sword The islands of happiness are the first stop We’ll
There’s nothing I can say about love That has not already been said Before me, a thousand “greats” Before me, a million dead. So, what
with you feels right when my city, the one I ask if you’ll call your own, (you know the streets better than I), is dark,
I view genderAs a beautiful animalThat people often take for a walk on a leashAnd might enter in some odd contestTo try to win strange
Seeking the quiet that persistence has, I might dig in forests rather than seas Had I the choice between existence as A blade of seagrass