Gissel
February 25, 2025
A short, dark-eyed portrait of infatuation, written in forgiveness of its own excess.
What Are We Waiting For
February 21, 2025
A late-winter confession carried across distance to a first love, asking if too much time has passed.
Pale Enchantress
June 21, 2020
A moonlit invocation to a pale, otherworldly enchantress.
Dark Empress
June 21, 2020
A gothic ode of willing surrender to a seductive, dangerous figure.
New
June 21, 2020
Naming the uneasy, hopeful complexity of starting to trust someone new.
Risk
June 21, 2020
A short, unsparing poem about a confession delivered too late and too honestly.
First Love
June 21, 2020
A snow-dusted homecoming reimagined as the arrival of a new year's first love.
Hannah
June 20, 2020
A quiet, entranced portrait of a woman defined by darkness and delirium.
Gym Crush
May 2, 2019
A one-line confession about tracking a crush's gains on social media.
Final Chapter
May 2, 2019
Closing out a run of romantic prose with one last reckless glance, before choosing the real woman over the myth.
The Next Place
May 2, 2019
Imagining a mother and a beloved pet reunited in peace, tending a shared garden beyond this life.
Waiting
May 2, 2019
The effortless ease of waiting for someone whose smile is worth looking up from the page for.
Love on the Nile
May 2, 2019
A name, finally spoken, becomes the whole poem -- desire distilled down to syllables.
Klearly Kombucha Klueless
May 2, 2019
A missed-connections ad written after a very specific grocery store encounter, argued over kombucha cultures.
The Way We Are
May 2, 2019
The unspoken rulebook governing a wordless gym-crush situationship, played for laughs.
Diablo
May 2, 2019
A gaming-night argument spirals into old wounds, staged as back-and-forth dialogue.
Fifty Shades of Greys
May 2, 2019
A flash of sci-fi fiction: an abductee's quiet, repeated defiance aboard an alien craft.
Love Is a Motherboard
May 2, 2019
A tech-punned retelling of a doomed rescue scene, styled after old planetary-romance serials.
You
May 2, 2019
A single, aching image of neglect as a bottomless pool.
The Star Spawn
May 2, 2019
A dark-fantasy journal entry: a failing ritual, a devoted companion, and a narrator whose intentions aren't what they seem.
Morocco
May 2, 2019
An ecstatic ode to a distant beloved, cast in the imagery of Rabat-Sale and the Valley of the Roses.