I held the key to the whispers; I knew
you were cinereal in color and unforgivable...

you drew me like a tattoo;
i was your little bird, birthed...

Vestigial wings
grant me the joy...

I can't seem to let things go-
last night I returned from a place...

I am an ebon starling, I have yet to grow
to mother's size, yet streaks of an...

I hide the lonely
under flannel sheets...

I thought the air could never fly up my neck,
yet here it chains me...

We practically knew each other's locker
combinations. On the first day of freshmen...

In his hazel eyes
her resonance shows within...

My heart remembers with unedifying
grief, how you told me that you always...

New beginnings taste
like rock-ribbed...

We're waiting to be on the observation deck
of the majestic Empire State Building...