Haikus

04.12.23

I don’t fear the fall —

What scares me is how badly

I crave the jumping

03.12.23

It’s Winter again

and you’re not here. You haven’t

been here in ages

01.12.23

I don’t miss the girl

I was — though, oh, I wish some-

-body would mourn her

21.11.23

What’s the name for this?

it’s on the tip of my tongue.

Like lips. Like fingertips

01.04.23

Love me — like the moon

in all my shades and stages

when I’m dark and done

25.03.23

In this is life I was

not blind. How could I not see

sorrow come for me?

21.03.23

I’d like to have said

loving made me better. Shame—

Only leaving did.

20.03.23

I fear I’m the type

that loves all at once, right then

and there. Or never

02.03.23

Can restlessness be

inherited like eyes, smiles -

I toss and turn like her

09.02.23 // Neya to the Theatre

Ah - the gentle rumbl-

-ings in between acts and then

a mad dash to quiet

25.01.23

I wonder what else

I missed for having given

up a bit too soon

24.01.23

I lie awake to-

-night and lament on all the

ways we could have been

22.01.23

It’s not a sickness

that satisfies but the type

that makes you fearful

13.12.22

Do we move through days

or do days move through us with-

-out a second thought?

12.01.22

His body, a met-

-ronome sets the days cadence

passing time, I dance

11.01.22

Maybe I’m better

after giving up myself

for anyone — else

10.01.22

You’d think with all these

conditions — that we’d be called

anything but Love

06.01.22

Yes I shift. Like winds

gasping, echoing, leaving

sails — & men — beguiled