Journal Entries

Dog BITE, 15 Jan. 2024

You used to think that love was something that kept you warm at night, but it’s more like a dog that bites your hand before it takes off running down the street. You never pet that dog again, But sometimes you see it at the end of someone else’s leash as you’re walking down the…

Winter, 2016

Daylight brought nothing andtomorrow will bring nothing.Your head and my heart arefilled with nothing.Emptiness has weight, andit weighs about as much as two people screaming at the four walls inside their home in the middle of the night. We learned the hard way thatone empty personcan’t complete another empry person.

circles

Some days,I am in line at the grocery storeAnd the personStanding in front of meKnows the ghosts that follow me by name.They ask meHow I’m doing, what’s newAnd I read them the scriptI wrote on the backs of both my eyelids;Rinse and repeatUntil they leave me alone.Some days,I wonder why it is thatThe search for…