star

star

NH

15 years old

Posts

  • By star

    i can't look away

    i can't look away, it's impossible
    there are mirrors all around, covering the walls, the floor, the ceiling
    and if i try to turn away, i see you again
    standing there in your clandestine beauty,
  • By star

    They Tell Us

    These are the best years of your lives, they tell us,
    so stop pretending you're truly suffering.
    Chin up, they tell us,
    mask your grimace with your widest smile
    because everthing is fine.
    Stop complaining, they tell us,

  • By star

    YOU

    I watched you talk to her
    waiting for the bus, analyzing your face
    your freckles, dimples, perfect smile,
    you.
    I've been obsessed for a month now,
    my heart launching into overdrive when I see you walk by.
  • By star

    once it was may...now it is not

    Once it was May,
    and flowers bloomed in sidewalk cracks,
    robins flitted through the not-quite-summer air and
    I lay in bed with the windows open and wrote poems as light as butterfly wings.
    I thought I had everything figured out.

  • By star

    I'm sorry, I have a question:

    When did it start?
    Girls being told they were less than boys, that they'd never be anything but wives and mothers,
    that was their role in society, no questions asked

Loves

  • velvet ease

    Kiss where ink and flesh align,

    carved to summon touch.

    Skip the space between my lips,

    spewing oaths of love.

    You feed me want— then starve me dry.

    A feast of glances,

  • when the wind remembers

    I am from mythic hues of orange and blues, 

    Where the setting sun greets the gentle waves.

    From solemn mornings and soft bed sheets,

    To boisterous cackles and tire swings,

    I am from the jostling of jewelry—

  • The Universe of Me

    My body is a universe
    My freckles are the stars
    The planet Venus is my lips
    My teeth, they come from Mars

    Mercury is in my brow
    The furrow that you see
    My thighs are Jupiter, you know
    In the galaxy of me

  • A Sestina

    Somewhere in the summer sun, 

    Where dandelions dance and sing 

    Along with the bluebird’s lonesome cry, 

    Alone, you’ll find me, lying there 

    Between the grass seed and maple leaves,