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NH

15 years old

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  • hummingbird girl

    She's hidden, cowering in the corner,

    as she waits, mouth open,

    words frozen on her lips.

    She does not speak.

    I mold my sadness into poetry and she watches me,

    amber eyes taking in everything and nothing.

  • camp.

    If I close my eyes it feels like I'm still there.

    I can hear the clatter of plates and the clamber

    to be first in line for breakfast,

  • Sun descending in a sienna sky

    The basketball court is slick with freshly-fallen rain, black nail polish hardened into enamel after spilling weeks ago lies on my desk, forgotten and right in front of my eyes, as I watch them play that game on my tiny screen, their feet sliding

  • Realities

    She pressed the cherry into my hand,

    Smiling, it didn’t mush,

    Didn’t leak red juice all over my summer-calloused palm

    Like fake blood, too bright to be the real thing.

  • Closer to spring

    Darkness falls quickly now,

    the feeble sky overpowered by the black pull of eternity.

    Snow turns to rain, rain turns to mud,

    and every month, I bleed and I cry.

    It's almost Christmas, but

  • My Heart Will Heal

    Your eyes are dark like midnight, filled with millions of tiny stars

    and I don't know what to say to you, what to do

    because when I see you,

    my

    heart 

    breaks,

    not in two but in so many scattered pieces,

Loves

  • Dinner With You

    I only ever came here for the fortune cookies 

    I don't know if you can tell 

    when I stare at the menu 

    under shiny plastic with a red rim 

    when I glance 

  • middle school chorus concert

    we stood on stage in black & white eyes tired but we sang til tomorrow anyways // they caught our eyes as it ended raised their hands to clap but i turned quick away convinced our performance wasn't worth more than // the quiet glint of confid

  • Lilac

    I bring my nose close to 

    the Lilac

    as I smell it's like I'm smelling a universe of

    peaceful trickling streams,

    birds softly singing,

  • In that Field

    It never happened

    that everything was beautiful and nothing hurt

    but if it did it would have been

    lying in the grass

    the kind that surrounds you like the ocean

    and flows like a river

  • 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,