Apr 27, 2022Member-onlyAvailable Now: Summer Fruit, A Collection of Heartbroken & Hopeful PoetryI’m several months late writing this post, but better late than never. I’ll jump right to it: Summer Fruit, my debut publication of heartbroken and hopeful poetry and prose, is now available online at Barnes & Noble. The book is pocket-sized yet steeped in emotion, serving as a chronicle of…Poetry2 min readPoetry2 min read
Nov 23, 2021Member-onlyIn 2022, The Persona Is The MediumIn 1964, Canadian communication theorist Marshall McLuhan published Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. The most famous snippet of this book arguably is the phrase “the medium is the message,” expressing that the forms and methods used to communicate information have a significant impact on the messages they deliver. In…Essay3 min readEssay3 min read
Apr 10, 2021Member-onlyundercurrentssoftened are the sharp and bitter stones that cut like glass as people walked upon me — a shifting of sands. sink into me like a riverbed and i will lull…Poetry1 min readPoetry1 min read
Mar 25, 2021Member-onlyIf You Don’t Know Where To Start:Pull all volumes of past work onto your desk. Let them remind you of how far you’ve come, and how much more there is left to do. Bathe in sunlight Get drunk enough to start fantasizing, but not so drunk you can’t hold your pen Remind yourself that one day…Writing1 min readWriting1 min read
Mar 6, 2021Member-onlytransitionsi harbored thoughts of you for months. they surfaced gently, golden apples bobbing in the lukewarm waters of my lucid dreams when i kiss you i taste the thawing of bleeding…Poetry1 min readPoetry1 min read
Feb 10, 2021Member-onlylockdown habitsmost days, i pretend i’m on a beach in spain, drinking wine until my skin feels so dry you could light a fire on it. sometimes i cry sometimes i step out on my balcony and yell at the orange tree for being so beautiful, so unaware i write long…Poetry1 min readPoetry1 min read
Published inChalkboard·Jan 21, 2021Member-onlyYou Used To Send Me Such Sweet ThingsFlipping through screenshots of old texts, I sob softly —One Line1 min readOne Line1 min read
Jan 8, 2021Member-onlyemptinessover time, my hands grew heavy tending to the roots of trees that bore no seed, no leaves, no fruit. so i turned into the desert, scorching and unscalable, stretched thin like…Poetry1 min readPoetry1 min read
Dec 22, 2020Member-onlyImperfectionsIn the sun-soaked orange rinds of my mind I still see shadows, flecks of gray and navy blue molds, cancers threatening to eat away this paper skin the golden rings inside my eyes…Poetry1 min readPoetry1 min read
Dec 12, 2020Member-onlyA Mortal, Staring Up At The MoonThirty-three times the moon unveils for us her many faces.Poetry1 min readPoetry1 min read
