~ Compassion fatigue: exactly what it sounds like; an emotionally and physically exhaustive state triggered by caring too hard for...

~ ⚠️Trigger Warning: The following poem contains subject matter pertaining to self-harm and voluntary psychiatric hospitalization⚠️ ~...

~ ⚠️Trigger Warning: The following poem contains subject matter pertaining to suicidal ideation and self harm⚠️ ~ At sixteen, I wanted to...

~ ⚠️Trigger Warning: The following poem contains subject matter pertaining to sexual harassment ⚠️ ~ Wearing mirrored sunglasses is not a...

The storm decapitated the few tulip heads that were brave enough to blossom this April. Tulips are not like the other flowers-- they...

~ You do not mind gawking at my sadness through a screen, but when it comes to comforting me in person-- as should be the duty of a best...

~ They tell me I bear an eerie resemblance to Snow White. Skin white as snow lips red as blood and hair black as ebony-- I die the same...

~ Ten years of age-- Phys-Ed teacher tells me that I need to wear my skin like an elephant wears its skin. "What does an elephant's...

~ ⚠️Trigger Warning: The following poem contains subject matter pertaining to self-harm, suicide, and voluntary psychiatric...

~ ⚠️Trigger Warning: The following poem contains subject matter pertaining to self-harm, suicide, and voluntary psychiatric...

~ ⚠Trigger Warning; the following poem contains subject matter pertaining to suicidal ideation and self-harm ⚠ ~ A note to any friends...

~ ⚠Trigger Warning; the following poem contains subject matter pertaining to self-harm ⚠ ~ I would records tally marks on my wrists in...

⚠Trigger Warning; the following poem contains subject matter pertaining to self-harm ⚠ ~ "These violent delights have violent ends."...

~ ⚠Trigger Warning; the following poem contains subject matter pertaining to self-harm ⚠ ~ One afternoon in the tenth grade, I am sent...

~ ⚠Trigger Warning; the following poem contains subject matter pertaining to self-harm ⚠ ~ Even when we have Phys Ed outside, and it is...

~ ⚠Trigger Warning; the following poem contains subject matter pertaining to self-harm ⚠ ~ I am sitting in ninth grade English class (or...

~ ⚠Trigger Warning; the following poem contains subject matter pertaining to self-harm ⚠ ~ In the beginning, I used Bic pen caps safety...

volume ii. putting on my face ~ ~ Step 1: Floss Cover Girls don't wear breakfast between their molars. Step 2: Brush Teeth Until the...

volume i. a portrait of my sixth-grade self ~ ~ Eleven-year-old fingers swollen with baby fat dig into the gaudy sheen of turquoise...

~ ⚠️Trigger Warning: The following poem contains subject matter pertaining to self-harm, suicide, and involuntary psychiatric...