Cowardly Lion
A literary mouth-off dressed in Oz imagery: this poem moves through yellow roads, false kingdoms, and poppy fields to ask what courage means when silence has already chosen its side.
Actual Reassurances
A poem about comfort that comes sideways. It lingers in strange timing, old symbols, and one moment of kindness that cuts through everything else.
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A nurse who has spent years holding the line for everyone else is forced to confront the limits of devotion. A sharp poem about helplessness, procedure, and the awful fluency of continuing after your life has split open.
Bruised Water
A deep-sea bloom is torn open by the first thing powerful enough to reach its depth. What remains is a poem of bloodied water, black coral, and the brutal afterlife of misrecognition.
177 Miles of This
A poem about being kept close without ever being treated gently. It is about crumbs.
Kelp Knotted in Silk
A lush, erotic meditation on contact and transformation, where kelp and silk entwine into a darker, more intimate form of beauty. What emerges is not innocence but aftermath.
Rabbit Logic
A recursive poem of longing and self-interrogation, where memory and emotional exhaustion collapse into the ache of missing someone who once felt safe.
Kelp Fever
A lush, unsettling meditation on desire and transformation, where beauty is altered by contact and rendered into something stranger, more physical, and impossible to name.
mirror inventory
A raw narrative about the aftermath of emotional damage, where body shame, silence, and mental distress become the record of what a relationship took.
I Refuse The Frame
A blistering trauma narrative about exploitation, discernment, and the refusal to mistake damage for devotion.
Above The Atmosphere
A romantic dreamscape that imagines a cosmic love untouched by catastrophe, where trust, wonder, and tenderness become the laws of gravity.
The Stork Will Make Two Stops
A reflective and emotionally grounded narrative that explores queer family building through reciprocal IVF, centering choice, partnership, and the meaning of being wanted.
I Recently Learned That Men Flirt With Me
A comedic, observational essay about heterosexual courtship rituals, lesbian visibility, and the surreal experience of being flirted with by men you fundamentally do not register.
First: The Belt
A thoughtful poem about trans becoming, where Orion serves as both symbol and shorthand for masculinity, recognition, and self-authorship.
How One Woman Unmade My Architecture
A reflective narrative that traces the five stages of grief through an unexpected connection, exploring how one woman’s steadiness dismantled old ideas about love, chaos, and survival.
Litany for the Shark in Her
A raw, conflicted trauma narrative that examines the pull of loving someone volatile, where devotion feels like protection and danger becomes indistinguishable from safety.
I Hope You Write A Slam Poem About Me
A sharp, confrontational manifesto that dismantles performative professionalism and calls out the quiet violence of people who watched harm unfold and chose not to act.