Poetry

I like to run from my problems like they are chasing me. 
Like if I go fast enough,
Distract hard enough,
They will disappear.
But they don’t,
And I keep running.
I like to run only in the metaphorical sense.

The day I heard the news

I almost thought I was dreaming:

I couldn’t imagine

Our country

Like I do now

I thought America,

Though not great,

Was good

I trusted

In humans

Any good salesman

Could turn quite the profit

If only they sold these days in a bottle.

Even if their only customer was me, I'm sure they’d make enough to suffice.

It is springtime, so of course,

There is a newness blowing through the trees

As they whisper like ocean waves outside my open window,

I had a vision

Of crimson vines

And blackened sleeves,

And pastry palms 

Holding strawberries.

If I turned my heart

spring lifts me above His shoulders.
holding me with thickened calluses 
built by the hand of a wealthy man.

He grabs a fistful of sunny daffodils
and dainty lilacs—and hands it to me, 
reaching over His head.

Chase the deer, the red-stained pavement, 

Chase the Ford F-150, white and black and silver, tires screech, 

and suddenly the concrete is scattered with glass stars and 

The ceasefire didn't last.

Now we're blockading their blockade.

Countries fighting like petty toddlers.

Trying to take control.

Ruining everyone else's lives as they do so.

America, Land of the Free, they say.

I am about seventy-five percent sure my father is having an existential crisis.

Synesthesia lens brekadrown of poem from years ago 

Circus is orange, a bright orange

That’s why it is best friends with chartreuse because they have fun together

Today I

ran through the rain, hair

newly cut and weightless even though

it was drenched; I

ate strawberries dusted with sugar while

doing homework, pencil

tracing neat letters across math homework I

Exhaustion

Like a blanket

It makes it hard to stand straight

Or say what I believe

It gets you sick

With mistaken beliefs

Because your courage to fight them has gone with your energy