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NH

15 years old

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  • ... And Now It Is May Again

    I was in the car, riding shotgun
    listening to a song that sounded like summer
    like tires rolling over hot asphalt
    like mud stuck to the bottom of a murky pond
    like a brain freeze from the coveted chill of ice cream
  • I drowned in compliance

    I drowned in compliance
    like I'd drown in an oversized sweater
    let it envelop me
    until all I could see were the rolling waves of
    expectations
    tossing me out to sea, unforgiving

  • drowning

    the cool water laps over my arms, my legs
    spills into my eyes
    the sun is shining just above the surface in its brilliant radiance
    but i'm underneath, waves tugging me away
    and i almost forget i'm drowing
  • the millionth untitled poem

    You say I used to live in another world, one you don't know about
    but really
    all I am is who I am when I'm with you.
    I'll give you my heart, my mind, my soul, the words coursing through my veins

  • In Another Life

    I stare at your beautiful face,
    at your wide smile underneath freckled cheeks,
    at your unknowing blue eyes, filled with glimering stars,
    hear the way your laugh sounds as it bounces through the hall,

Loves

  • Homestay in San Juan La Laguna

    As I’m writing this I’m lying in bed in Nuevo Horizonte. A small jungle town in the north of Guatemala where around 100 people live and work together. Recently (a day ago) we wrapped up our time in San Juan La Laguna with our homestay family’s.

  • sleepaway #1

    it rained the night of our arrival -

    big, whooshing gasps of whitewashed rain & thunder that

    shook heavy against the darkening skies. dinner went long.

    we only sang louder, deafening echoes beneath the storm as

  • Summer

    the air tastes like honey and promise 

    sticky with the scent of blooming jasmine 

    and freshly cut grass that crunches beneath bare feet 

    the sky drips blue 

    stretching wider every afternoon 

  • ASHES AND BIRTHDAY CANDLES

    your birthday was halo-lit nights and cigarettes in sugar cakes—

    melted icing smeared over the tips of flames snuffed out in the dark.

    you asked for a songbird, said your lungs were burnt with apocalypse dust