I will always remember. There are moments so rooted in my being that I would be hollow without them. They are what made me. You are what made me even though we were cheated, even though the rug was pulled out and we lost despite the love. Those minutes are sacred, fastened to my heart […]
Your scars are showing today. I see the ridges where your wounds were raw, where your skin grabbed on and refused to give up. I see those red places where the pain has not yet abated, where the injuries blaze in fresh agony. When you self-destruct, I imagine your heart clawing it’s way out of […]
Your pain is dull,washed outin this sepia glowwhile mine is allsharp edgesand frantic loss. You forget what it feels liketo get thrown off a cliffin the middle of a fairytalewhile I remember each secondof the plummet. Your pain walks with you,but mine stabs with every step.Every touch,a thousand bladessevering the veinswhere I sleep. You and […]
She is a hurricane, spiraling winds wrapped up in waterfalls of rain, and she can’t stop falling, pouring herself out onto streets and cars and houses. She winds up her thoughts with gale force facts and spews them at whoever won’t listen because no one really does. Her eyes bleed invisible tears that plummet onto […]
I guess I got what I wanted. I just didn’t realize it wouldn’t be enough. That I would open my eyes and see your face and know this was where I belonged. I didn’t know that just being someone wouldn’t be enough. I thought I needed someone. To hold me and smile at me and […]
It’s not about commitment or love or even attraction. It’s about simply feeling something. When he puts his hands on me, his mouth against my skin, he makes me feel because I don’t anymore. I feel anxious and sad and scared, but that’s it. I walk around in those three modes and exist. But when […]
Write something. Anything. Just get the thoughts out. Spill them onto these blank screens and plaster the world with your faulty words, your flawed ideas that hold together each breath, each step because without them, you are empty. Without them, you are lost among forests of stories sprouting up through dirty lines of mishmashed text, […]
Stasis. This frozen space where I can’t move forward but I know I can’t stay here. Every day for fifteen years. Suspended, I hang above my body watching, waiting for the moment of escape, the moment I’ll know it’s time to take back over, to get on that bus again, and go. Where? Who knows? […]
Pain ripples through my bones, sends aftershocks trembling over my skin, and I don’t know where it comes from. I vibrate with hot breaths, flying fast from lungs that don’t feel like mine, while flames rip their way out of my eyes, and the air thickens, pollutes my mouth, yet I gasp for it because […]
How do you live with someone for 15 years and they still don’t seem to notice you? Like, they see you, talk to you, touch you occasionally, but they don’t actually see you. When they look at you, it’s as if you were everything, but they don’t actually know you, the real you, the pieces […]
TBI Survivor Story
Writing letters I can never send
He was so ugly that everybody died. The end!
An engineered explosion of erroneous exposition.
~chaos with coffee☕
Fun for the whole asylum!
Darren Hawbrook
Get Your Keys, Grab Your Coat.
A rather droll affair
Shattered long ago...
Understanding someone’s way with words isn’t as simple as you think.
poetry w/teeth
Two old men write poetry, short stories and other things
Where are you John Bender...
My Imagination is the DEVIL on my shoulder
No, this blog is not about love.
The Works of Lori Carlson
