i am just like you (i am lonely)

mad·ness (n): love and depression, exploding in unison.

Ink on Paper

The thoughts of a thinker are dangerous. Truly. Just a few words to get those cogs turning. 2020 poetic rants and stories.

the failings of a surgically healed heart | a collection

「 WATTYS 2019 WINNER 」 the failings of a surgically healed heart, is a series of autobiographical poems arranged into six thematic parts to form a collection which examines the idea of the collective and how that informs individual. i. family an exploration of my relationship with the men and boys in my household and...

Landscape

You only hinder yourself by concealing those feelings under a concrete mask. But remember, concrete cracks and I see your unmarred skin that's not tasted the flavour of living. You hide like a guilty thief. You steal away the experience so open your eyes, your mind, your heart to the landscape known as Emotion. ***...

A FILM FOR YOU

glossy words put together to make you feel in the middle of a cruel saccharine melody.

𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐬

𝑊𝐸 𝑀𝐸𝐸𝑇 𝐵𝑌 𝐴𝐶𝐶𝐼𝐷𝐸𝑁𝑇.

all the pretty boys

fraud.

𝔤𝔦𝔯𝔩 𝔠𝔯𝔦𝔢𝔰 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔢𝔱𝔠𝔢𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔞

𝐰𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐬; 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐲𝐫𝐞𝐝

silkworms in my throat

i swallowed a rotten tongue

SENSORY OVERRIDE

a philosophical midnight pilgrimage through elusive facets of feeling & healing

LOCUS AMOENUS

where wanderlust and a well-travelled writer dance to the ever-fickle tune of vicarious words

put me on a saint candle

lace me in acid and call me holy

HUMAN PSYCHE

because that which makes us human is that which we think makes us less human

VOX NIHILI

as silence takes you into her soporific arms, listen to the sound of her dying heartbeat