Smog

July 29, 2020November 17, 2021 Alphabet RavineLeave a comment

Lock your irises up and to the right,
summoning mine. Let your side stand square,
your hips too scared. Stare these pupils,
sheltered by my arched brows, down. I can barely see
you through your eyes’ fear. But I know better than
to call such your name, bold challenger, chasing the guards
from the gate of your soul, welcoming my power to
assume your worth, envisioning yourself to be embracing my heart-
heart you shrouded, mistook for my mere humanity.

Pictures

July 27, 2020July 27, 2020 Alphabet Ravine4 Comments

If you had wanted to learn how to smile,
I could have taught.

If you had no longer wanted to hide,
I would have found.

You cover up and run,

break to make yourself back up
into some distortion

like any evil thing would beRead More »

Christian School Kid

March 20, 2020March 21, 2020 Alphabet Ravine1 Comment

Child of the dark, given a magic prayer and some commands,
who picked up confusion, legalism on the way,
trying not to doubt their magical prayer,
wondering why it won’t prompt the ways they said you’d change.

Afraid to trust, forbidden to not,
unsafe on either plane,
child of fear’s of hopelessness, and as such, of shame.Read More »

Lessons on How to Be Okay

January 24, 2020January 25, 2020 Alphabet Ravine5 Comments

You, my first love with your padding to my room to draw
a mural with me, with my three-years-behind-yours fine motor skills.
Green easel- hodgepodge I never erased.
You, with your independence, hero-power, and readiness,
senior trips and friends I always joined but never made.

“How was it letting the class freak be on top?”Read More »

Ivory

November 22, 2019November 26, 2021 Alphabet Ravine5 Comments

When the sun dried up the moss, and the sea washed over it,
a thick, pale, green milk pooled into your eyes,
and your olive, tan skin glows, and your wispy hair shines,
and you’re too pretty to be any older than a child,

but you didn’t stay a child long anyways, did you?
And when you grow up fast, do you grow much at all?
You are a cowering six feet tall!

But you’re too bold to remain so shy,Read More »

Stained Glass

November 8, 2019January 21, 2020 Alphabet Ravine6 Comments

Whisper words like “virgin” and watch
as images dance through their minds

of white satin gloves,
of innocent deer,
of crystal clear glass.

Write it on my i.d. or social,
but leave it off my nametag, please,Read More »

Mirror, Mirror

September 20, 2019January 21, 2020 Alphabet Ravine23 Comments

There was a little girl I knew, with vibrant, dancing eyes;
A slender, graceful, little girl, with skin pulled taut that shined;
A careful, hopeful, spirited child with hair that flew behind;
A princess in a castle soon locked up, constrained, confined.
…Just trying to understand her land.

Mirror, Mirror, On The Wall,
Are skin-thick walls too strong to fall?
Mirror, Mirror, On The Wall,Read More »