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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

  • 17

    on the night that you broke your eyes open,

    cried into candy packets you found at the petrol station smelling like gasoline and regret

    in your still-standing baby teeth like slabs of sugared marble there were

  • crawdad song

    you get a line & i'll get a pole

    honey - honey! july thickens, slows to a stop outside, get

    your rod and line, the ones that used to be your father's. get

    your heart from the closet and your coat from the floor,

  • 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.