Missy Matchstick 4/23/26 Missy Matchstick 4/23/26

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.

Missy Matchstick 4/19/26 Missy Matchstick 4/19/26

177 Miles of This

A poem about being kept close without ever being treated gently. It is about crumbs.

Missy Matchstick 3/25/26 Missy Matchstick 3/25/26

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.

Missy Matchstick 3/20/26 Missy Matchstick 3/20/26

reduced.

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

Missy Matchstick 10/30/25 Missy Matchstick 10/30/25

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.

Missy Matchstick 10/30/25 Missy Matchstick 10/30/25

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.

Missy Matchstick 10/22/25 Missy Matchstick 10/22/25

The Tower Of Us

A tarot-structured essay about love, manipulation, and the reckoning that comes when you finally read the spread clearly.

“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