Yellow Sweater

Yellow Sweater

WA

YWP Alumni Advisor

Posts

  • Highways


    It’s a clear day. The sky is blue. The grass is green. And we are driving down the highway. The journey is marked by spastic bursts of conversation and a chunkily categorized landscape. I press my nose to the glass and point.
  • Wet Paper

    Our eyelids slowly fold,
    your fingernails creasing my skin
    as you tell me not to cry.

    Suppressed by geometry,
    there’s no room for imprecision
    in our origami sorrow.

    There will come a day,
    when wet and wrinkled,
  • Schrödinger's Cat

    The refrigerator has skin.
    It hums, cold through the cold night, singing to itself.
    There is an emptiness wound into our mechanisms. 
    In the dark, I poured myself a cup of orange juice. 
  • Cherry Tree, Blossoming

    Cherry tree, you flourish in so many fragile ways. 
    I shelter under your bare boughs, waiting for spring. 

    Time moves delicately, upward with splayed fingers. 
    We sit together, cold and open to loose clouds.
  • Hidden

    It’s a delicate thing, living, 
    waiting to notice the sun. 

    Twisted, like a autumn leaf, 
    I turned with your breath.

    Our fingers were tangled, 
    together, made to be one. 



     

Loves

  • Coffee Runs

    When I was a kid, I had a near perfect childhood. I had friends on the same street as me, and we rode our bikes around the neighborhood playing cops and robbers.

  • Togetherness

    He sits 6 feet behind the sideline, wondering how the sport in front of him works. The whistle was blown and he felt a sense of togetherness. Teammates were lined up across the bench sticking out on each end by at least 3 people.

  • Glittering

    I locked eyes with him, the glowing man on the stage. 

    He glimmered, his red hair shining under the spotlight. 

    That was all it took for my heart to be stolen away. 

  • To Be a Son

    Blue and black blur as the football spirals through the air, 

    My hands outstretched, 

    The ball tumbling closer and closer. 

     

    I drop it.