Try.
Try to love yourself...

I am at peace now, with this newborn January, with...
this steaming cup of decaffeinated coffee...

Dear Secret,
I won't let you consume me. I will voice you to...

You are the grimy pavements of Venice,
a city I would never retreat to if my heart...

I held a moonless night in my palms,
a night without parents, without care...

You need reminders, not the kind of
ruptures that lay awake in your mind...

When I was asked to ring our church bell,
pulling that long rope down then up to the...

Everyone spits out your name or tries
to impress with animated metaphors...

We are trained to question, always question
in order to analyze the needs they walk in with...

Emotions are not exclusive from
violent bursts of negative energy...

Your right hand masked all of your face,
eyes tunneled behind rough skin...

I imagined leaving peacefully,
the way a tree bows down in...