On the subject of windthrows

I went for a walk today and saw a windthrow—well, lots of windthrows actually but one in particular caught my eye. There is something so very beautiful about them; how trees become homes to new lives even after their own have ended. The way nothing really dies in nature—…

Windthrow

I am but a windthrow: left naked before the world stretching my fingers up into the air— there is a freedom to this clarity despite the way I’m being seen my body becoming home to a thousand little lives— grateful for my sacrifice, welcoming the feeling of my flesh…

on the subject of safekeeping

gilded cages — never once did they protect everything that matters and yet I lay my splintered heart in them begging them to keep it safe I believe they have ignored my pleas…

reaching for air

there is a rope of thoughts that seizes my heart and drags me down It never seems to cease I try to crawl my way out of this never ending cave My scream is tied to me it rips my throat as it too reaches for air…