Xanadu
 

I am lost. My heart too heavy with emotion that words cannot express. I turn to music to carry the weight To let my heart rest. It starts...

A stock boy stands in the aisle of an empty store, Counting down the minutes until closing on a Friday night. The whole shift has been a...

With its sharp crevices and metal condensed onto one item. It's a trap— one function only. The hook is functionally deceitful. A...

I wonder if you’re in pain, just like I am in pain. Do you seek distraction or do you actually find joy in playing the same tune for...

One child approaches me asking to decode the infinite. He asks of the convergence and divergence and of the beauty and intricacy in...

I was told pennies are lucky only When their faces smile up At you from the ground. Shiny or dull, they’re small bearers of hope: A cent...

Meticulously I etch each letter, Each word, Each sentence, Each name, Each date, Into stone, Into wood, Into plastic. I leave marks on...

Maybe Of Mice and Men. Maybe Gatsby. I don’t even remember— The assignment was never the point. I was always so bubbly in the class...

-After Emily Dickinson ¨Hope¨ is the wing of a butterfly— That comes out of the garden And flies from flower to flower— And gives the...

you taunt me. you flaunt your mind and your vanity. i am left defenseless and at your will. you could jump me, attack me with blades or...