My normal has disappeared. My brain has betrayed me. I wonder if this is how my dad felt, if this is how it started for him. Little tremors, moments of forgetting, stumbling, stuttering, failing. I can no longer get excited or feel afraid which is ironic considering I’m an anxiety-ridden mess. And people talk to […]
I have a kid now. Not in the usual way in which one goes about having a kid, but I have one nonetheless. He’s fifteen and beautiful. And I mean that. He’s got thick, curly hair and molten eyes spilling pain and joy all at once. His smile is epic and he’s funny and special […]
Dear Johnny, Today is your birthday, and, as always, I’m writing to you, one more of my many hopeless efforts to show you how much I care, but I suspect you already know this, already have deleted this the moment it entered your inbox, and forgotten my name the moment it left your eyes. I […]
Dear Johnny, Once, I tried to write about how I felt when I was with you, how it feels to miss you. That’s a lie. I didn’t write about it once. I write about more often than you’d like to know, to be honest, but I did write about it once where it felt more […]
Even in the darkness, I am yours. When we are lost, wandering roads cobbled in vacant thoughts, frozen moments, when we are alone, warmth receding from our needy grasps, even then, I am yours. In shadows and fog, in corners and fields, when nothing persists beyond sadness and gloom, I am yours. These dreams you […]
The loss eats at me, takes wide bites, and swallows hard each bit I have left, these frail pieces folding into glass, into long, precision moments where we are instead of were, where we were now instead of then, these fractured portals into nowhere because then is gone and I am standing in pools of […]
Pricks and pinches, slices and sores. I’m full of empty unless you count pain. I’ve enough of that to spread around. Holes and hideouts, deserts and dungeons. I’m lost among familiars, their faces poking into a reality empty of full. Shattered and shaken, busted and broken. I’m a mirror in pieces on a dirty floor, […]
We are just bones. Bones and blood, cells living, multiplying, dying. We are just skin and arms and eyes. Pieces puzzled together to make us people. Humans walking around in skin we don’t like speaking in voices we aren’t sure are our own. We exist. Until we don’t. And then we’re more than flesh, more […]
I don’t know if this email works. I don’t know if you even exist anymore, if you really existed at all, or if any of it was ever real. I just know I miss you beyond words and I would give anything to talk to you again. *** I just sent this to him. It’s […]
Buzzing, a hammering in my brain but deeper. Shaking, twisting around my insides, and I just need it to stop. I scream for it to stop. “You did nothing wrong!” “Everything’s fine!” But it screams right back in my face and I somehow know it’s right. I’m waiting for the basket to get too full, […]
The Writer's Adventure
He was so ugly that everybody died. The end!
An engineered explosion of erroneous exposition.
...becoming the glory within
composed late at night, from amongst chaos and coffee
Poetry for Girls & Monsters
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
