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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.

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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.

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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.

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reduced.

A controlled, emotionally incisive narrative about being misremembered, exploring the quiet violence of having shared history rewritten into something unrecognizable.

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Seen / Unseen

A raw, unflinching trauma narrative that captures the isolation of bipolar depression, exposing the distance between offered support and true presence, and the brutal persistence required to stay alive.

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Red Carpet, Then Wreckage

A sharp, unflinching trauma narrative that examines lovebombing as a form of psychological conditioning, tracing how intensity becomes addiction and how its aftermath distorts the way love is recognized.

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Third Degree Devotion

A searing trauma narrative that uses fire as a metaphor for loving someone unraveling, capturing the disorientation, manipulation, and aftermath of escaping a relationship that consumed everything.

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F31.81, In Partial Remission

A fierce, intimate essay that explores bipolar disorder through the lens of caregiving, tracing the tension between high-functioning professionalism and private collapse.

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Narrative Note: Grief

A darkly satirical poem in which nursing documentation becomes the container for death, family devastation, and the impossible administrative fiction of “stable.”

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“The Palms STill Stand. Crisp Silhouettes against a Hazy Sky, tall as guilt and just as thin. They line the driveway in symmetrical grief, as if trying to offer shade to something that can’t be cooled. Everything here is sun-bleached and wind-chapped, held together by spider webs and memory. The breeze tastes like eucalyptus and the air smells like dust that used to be skin.”

Noncompliant: A Sunglassed Elegy From Camarillo