Deep Woods Read

She came to it as the moon waxed She dreamt of it when it waned She asked it for dark secrets on the dark terrain. Resembling a shadow...

I have betrayed myself. I betrayed the young woman who knew she wanted to be alone in her strength, her only companion, a dog. The...

I caught myself during a passing storm, I held tight, though the ropes were wet and rough. I dried myself in the spring breeze, the sun...

1) The control you wield compresses me like oiled sardines. You cannot crush my spirit. 2) You've been playing with my heart so long,...

In the quietude of after-school hours, I visited alone. The courtyard was a place where stories were born, and memories were made. Kids I...

I've been very interested in the things that author Graham Hancock has to say. I stumbled upon a YouTube video called Thoth's Prophecy....

Nature sways with wind bowing down grass branches bend storm front approaches

Fire has been in a lot of my thoughts, poems, and writing the past three months. Now as fire rages across the globe this summer, it’s on...

The scorching fire of lust for sex was so intense, I thought everyone could see steam rising from my very skin- Even in the intense heat...

I often think about tactile pleasures. I look at the trees lining the mountainsides, and imagine how they’d feel if I were a giant,...

The older I get, the harder it is to be alive, when all my friends and family are dying. I want to stay for all the ones who are left, I...

I love the intensity of looking into someone’s eyes. I always knew that a great amount of trust and intimacy comes from gazing into them....

Even though a dog’s love is unconditional, their trust in me is the greatest gift.

When we’re alive, we collect all the things that make us happy. We paint the walls in our favorite colors. Shelves are filled with...

My confidence does not depend on your opinion of me. I've known exactly who I am since I was born. I know what is right and wrong, and...

I see his fingerprints altering the smooth surface. Lines of identification. I smudge them with my own fingers, and think how much I want...

Your eyes go through me like shattering glass through bare skin. You make me bleed with angry fright. I will crawl through the depths of...

You are a predator, but I am more clever. I laugh carefully at how easy it was to defeat you. You still have no idea you lost the game....

I feel like the cat. Grey and unseen next to the textures and tones of its surroundings. There is almost a need to be quiet and soft...

You look at me with your black eyes. Your head sprinkled with shiny indigo dust. Streamlined, bawdy, scavenger bird. Some see you as a...