From the Collection
Poems
Excerpts from All in on Empty. New work appears on Instagram first.
“My license plate still names
a place I once called home,
but I crossed the desert miles
because of you alone.”
— from All in on Empty
“You are not alone in the becoming.
I am there too.”
“Sometimes healing looks less like triumph and more like learning how to stay.”
“But not everything warm needs to become a scandal.”
“Broken souls can recognize each other on first sight.”
“Strong has become another way to say,
‘We noticed you were suffering but needed you functional.’”
“People will build entire homes from your sacrifice, then curse you for collapsing underneath the weight.”
“The cactus doesn’t pretend to be soft.
People do, right before they prick you.”
“Home isn’t the place that makes you stay.
It’s the place that teaches you how to leave, and loves you enough to welcome you back.”
“Not perfection.
Recognition.”
— All in on Empty
The full collection is 126 pages of poems written in the middle of the storm.