I’ll follow you into blindly

Unknowing

Is it love or is it fear

That keeps me close to you

Does it even matter

So long as it’s you and me

I’m a bird with no song

A dog with no home

But you’ll find me and take me in

A stranger to myself

Known to you

No. You

Are the only one...

Splash, pull lift,

Splash pull lift.

The muscles in my back ache as I paddle furiously. It’s started raining on the lake, pelting against my bright yellow rain jacket.

I hear the motors behind me. The boats will be closing in any minute now.

I can feel the blisters on the hands about to break open, but I can’t stop now.

Splash, pull, lift

Splash, pull, lift

My ragged breathing echoes in my ear...

When I met you, you stuck in my mind

Across from me at the table, quiet but kind.

-I hardly remembered who you were

I thought it was odd-a friend request, from her?

You rolled up in a cutoff tank riding your bike

I met you with a greeting, an exclamation, but you were like-

-Oh it’s G, right?

Unsure as to why I’d hugged you on sight

I remembered you.

-I didn’t know I was supposed to

But now i...

Happy.

Too devoid of meaning or too full of meaning, I do not know

But everyone has a sense of what it feels like.

I thought I’d never be happy again

Still most days-

Though years later-

I feel the deep ache.

Of loss and betrayal and broken vows.

I look at my kids and see your features reflected back.

And remember

I did love you.

But our happiness was fleeting.

In anger I found community

In sol...

I’ve been trapped for longer than I can remember. Living off the basics I could find. A steady job. A happy home. I have my routine. Each day is the same- wake up, breakfast, work, talk, dinner, bed. Rinse, repeat, repeat, repeat. But something sinister lurks around every corner. And I’m getting to a point where I very soon may die. Or this version of me, at least.

You see, I am hungry. Starving,...

What should’ve been a blip in time

Stretches out in my mind

Sunrise swirls into the clouds

Low tide reveals the pebble studded sand

My hand in yours.

We walk, skipping rocks across the glassy surface

We didn’t know the future

How much harder

And how much sweeter

Live would become

For then, I was

Grateful

Time had never passed so slowly....

It’s me.

Surely it’s not.

After all this time,

The long nights and days away you were-

Yes, always. It was never about you.

But what if-

I won’t.

And how did you even-

An accident.

Well don’t you think I should-

No. Stay here.

How will we-

We will. Trust me....

Your hand on the dial

To turn the sound down

I reach for it at the same time

Instinctively

To turn it up.

My hand rested on yours

a moment too long

Just a fraction of a second

too long

For being “just friends”

too long

In that moment

I knew all I need to know about us....

Brains in jars.

Suspended in fluid, floating aimlessly, bumping into each other every now and then to make

A connection.

That’s how I think of us sometimes

But we’re bigger than that.

We’re whole universes

Dazzling stars and galaxies stretching on into inky black infinity.

Whole stories unfolding rapidly

Splashing colors onto pages

Thoughts into actions

But we hide.

So stuck in our own heads

All ...

I think about this sometimes.

When I try to trace my origins back

Deep intro he recesses if my brain.

I go back farther and farther, trying to find an anchor to connect to,

So much so that I float up and out of myself. Out into the ether, up above the earth

Into the stars.

Just observing. Taking in the lives below me.

Disconnected.

But what about before this space?

Before the great blue marble and...