Our lives are an ever-changing balance between creation and consumption. Mindful and intentional consumption is important and essential–consuming food, resources, and ideas, when done with intention, contributes meaningfully to our lives and helps us contribute...
If you’re the meditative type, maybe you’ll meander down where the trails wind around the old memorial with the stern-faced soldiers pushing the flag into the ground across the way from the endless smooth, white headstones stretching in such straight ranks for what...
If this is hell, I wonder what heaven looks like. You cannot imagine a sky bluer than this blue. What’s the Platonic form of butterflies? You close your eyes and smell the sunlight on the long grass. Will the stars sing with us? Every square inch of you bursts...
Sunlight bursts its way through the curtains I’ve pulled tightly shut and rolls my reluctant body out of bed, cursing and grumbling the whole way down an hour and a half after my alarm went off. Shower in a fog, dress haphazardly, and stumble down the stairs,...
I feel like this is sort of cheating for NaPoWriMo because this is a poem I wrote before, just slightly reworked for my poetry class. I’m not sure that I like the revision. If you want to see the original version, you can check it out here. Enjoy! Lucifer sits...
