Rivulets

An anthology of creative writing through the years
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Sustenance

Accursed thing that lurks
Daytime denies your petting

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Comedy

Cadence that flows like honey
Precision colored delivery
A visage that blooms on tongue
Like biting into a cherry

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Window

Vision returns with a foray of light, and
The window opens and your skeleton’s there
It waves hello, and I reach out to touch…

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Benediction

Wearisome
I open my eyes
Promiseless girl
Unfitted and abound
“A day”, I seethe

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Refraction

A prose poem

You ask a question and everybody replies, but the answer doesn’t fit, it doesn’t feel right. It’s as if they saw it through water, bent light. They think it’s at...

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Exorcism

In shrouds of evaporated rain
I sip tea behind glazed windows
In a baggy worn out t-shirt
Watching the sway of verdant

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Famine

Be so beautiful that I can’t leave
That my wrists are bound
So that I have no choice but to follow you around
Even though my pieces...

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Definition

A prose poem

My ankle is shackled, and I cannot for the life of me remember when it happened, only that it’s connected to yours.

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Dawn

The galaxies in your words
Terrify me to say the least
They demand to see mine
I can’t show, I want to hide

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Enchantress and The Beast

Beast was quite distraught, oh well
For one, he was a “beast” now
On top of all that he had to find true love
What even is “true”? Seriously, how?...

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Meiosis

Rather, the lack thereof

Somedays I feel gifted
Talent, beauty, brains
These, these are good days
Entitled to propagate
Bloodlines to bloodlines

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Pygmalion

Why shouldn’t I just, manufacture you
The thought arose one grim afternoon
A standard mold, dubiously groomed
Inspiring misandry, my vision was to fruit

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Hero

Who hurt you so?
That it was me you fell for
Of all people, You
You could’ve loved someone more

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Composition

Strings once, found me fond
I played them for a season
Suddenly they turned, Bled steel into my touch
Yelled, Halt! ’tis not to be completed

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Beauty of All Things Grey

Once I walked through a great grey forest
Beauty to which was no peer
Never have I seen such grandeur such shade
Haunted with promise and fear

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