poetry | vitamin gingerbread

Climate Change

Could we all try being A little less opinionated These days And agree that When the sun catches The wings of the raven For a fleeting...

Tangible

One rain-spattered afternoon In Portland I wander with Vague direction down Glistening streets Still swelling at the lingering taste Of...

There is Only One Rule

You can’t crack a poem As you can an egg or A nut, Insides gooey and Shattered, Respectively. Instead, you must Gaze at each Untarnished...

Breathing Underwater

My head sags between my thighs After I stumble into the carport Sweating away the thrill Subsiding into Everything. Naked Stripped of...

Approximately Summer

I hold a dark blue flower Up to the sun The stem pinched lightly Between thumb and pinky I see you through the hole created by My long...

How To Last

I’m in a new place these days. A little sick still, But mostly in love With being useful. Feeding my injured hen Water from a syringe I...

Shower Hair

My hair’s growing longer So when I’m in the shower I pull on locks That tug easily, Feel them twitch And spring forth In earnest Like...

Sixth Sense

I live and die For that moment Right after I realize You are being sarcastic. For me, To tease is to trust And to trust is to love. Let...

Wish Upon A Human

Here we are again My dear, At that place where You want nothing more Than to touch those stars Suspended Feathered And utterly alone,...

Shadow Beach

I can’t seem to get my mind off your Browned apple bottom cheeks, Once pinched by the hands of a sorcerer, Who, while performing this...

Submerged

Everything is somehow Perfect. Licking the sidewalk Tastes of salt As if we were meant To live in an ocean of Concrete coral reefs And...

Ode to Winter

Startled by the clinking of Your mug upon the table, A certain look deep in your eyes I find I cannot label. Snow is falling gently, And...

My Friend

Through thick and thin, You’ve been there, friend, Through changing of the tides, When tempest tore My ship to shreds You stayed right by...

Ode to Chronic Pain & Anxiety

I cannot tell you what it is To wake one day and find, Pain in both your knees That’s of a sharpish, throbbing kind. Nor can I impart to...

Lullaby to Myself

My love, my sweet angel, You’re perfect, my dove, Sleep deeply and drift Through the clouds up above. Only good things will Await you, my...