”Deadname” is a sestina that mirrors gender transition with the emotional transition of a family that has to put their biases behind them.
Deadname
Tag: pain
Clear Pond Water
Pond water is clear
this year. A wavery…
Love Isn’t And Is
A high fever in bed,
love goes a little bit mad.
the sacrificing poet
A poet who sacrifices his own life for his own truth while the ones he loves watch on.
The Frightful Fall
A healthcare aid panics when his client falls through the Hoyer Lift and to the floor.
Drunk
Drunk is a poem that implores the idea of heartbreaks and how some deep bonds when broken can make us feel so drunk and delusional.
Honestly
Learning to love myself and realize that it isn’t always your loss when it hurts; sometimes people can make you forget the good in yourself.
My Father Leaves For Alaska
The chill of the sudden parental departure.
Roses and Thorns
A myth about the creation of the rose and the struggle to make sense of why pain exists.
Papa Razzi
Papa Razzi takes my photo; he takes so much more than a photo.
Pain Cuts Deep Into Our Lives
There are times when sadness creeps in,
filling the space that love left empty.
It’s Time
A fragile reflection bounces off the mirror as a soft, dulled image lulled by a slow, backward pull away from pain.
Recursive
This poem talks about the physical and the mental pain a body goes through with chronic disease.