But I can only hold back the tears... so many times

~ ⚠️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 self-harm, suicide, and voluntary psychiatric...

~ ⚠Trigger Warning; the following poem contains subject matter pertaining to graphic language, substance abuse, suicidal ideation and...

~ i know you're reading this Image Source: Gif from Athina Rachel's film The Capsule (2012). [image] Available at:...

Inspired by The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman ~ What if the house was never haunted? What if, all along, it was merely the...

~ I pin the anemic bodies of poems to the bed of palm like they are cadavers waiting to be d i s s e c t e d. This is the only...

~ {I. Eve} ~ EVE: A starry-eyed insurgent--a woman whose acts of rebellion are catalyzed by the desire to realize her own romantic...

~ The weight of Mount Olympus lies sepulchred on the bridge of my nose. This is where the goddesses live. They tell me I am beautiful. I...

~ Drink away the merciless cruelties of your reality. Happy shots all around (for a remarkably sad girl). “But you can’t kill your...

~ Sometimes, I imagine I'm some mourning starlet who sings Lana Del Rey at the club every Saturday night. A honeyed halo of stage light...

~ There's always been something so Hollywood about her-- and I don't mean 21st Century bullshit. I'm talkin' Judy Garland, you're the...

~ ⚠Trigger Warning; the following poem contains subject matter pertaining to suicide, self-harm, and eating disorders⚠ ~ how do u know if...

~ "No more tears now; I will think about revenge." -- Mary, Queen of Scots ~ Someone once told me that I have the eyes of a Queen, that...

~ Inspired by Judy Blume,  inside Jokes with Liz and the poetry of Alissa Grams (https://alissagrams.wordpress.com/2017/03/06/an-open-let...

~ ⚠Trigger Warning; the following poem contains subject matter pertaining to self-harm ⚠ ~ In memory of him? her? I do not know. ~ In the...

~ ⚠Trigger Warning; the following poem contains subject matter pertaining to self-harm and suicide ⚠ ~ The envelope (delivered just this...

~ VI. I, Ophelia {The Drowning} It was her-- Flower Child. Weeping woman. Crazed Ophelia-- who taught me that the drowning is in the...