




To grow is to bloom
My eyes the sun,
My mind the moon,
I am the soil.
Petals on my tongue.
I have shed a thousand times.
To grow,
Is to bloom.
prey
Beneath the tree canopy, a drama unfolds,
As ants succumb to the fungus' hold.
Their bodies become hosts in a ghoulish display,
As cordyceps directs their final ballet.
Kat
oh, a little cat—
oh… it’s me?
wait—am i a cat?
no, it can’t be.
my tongue feels weird,
so rough, so pink—
my thoughts get fuzzy
i start to blink.
my feet are small,
no socks, no shoes—
i stretch, i yawn,
like cats all do.
i guess i woke up,
just like that…
and somehow, yes—
i turned into a cat.
tweet tweet
met you online—
i think it’s called twitter?
isn’t it crazy
how our love twitters—
like a tweet tweet bird sound,
lol, that’s what i sent
when you made me laugh
at some dumb little vent.
then we went to the movies,
our very first meet,
and later that night
my heart skipped a beat.
i didn’t feel like a bird,
but under starry sighs,
i felt, for the first time,
i found my skies.
scared
i wonder what it’ll be
a year from now—
will the trees still howl?
will i wake in the night
to some utter disaster,
or just wake on the hour,
pants and socks on,
ready for my nine-hour?
i kind of long for disaster—
i’m tired of nine hours.
but i’m scared too,
scared of the world breaking
when all i wanted
was something to shake me.
stuck in this between
of bored and tired,
need excitement,
need more—
need money,
need a farm,
need happiness,
need more more more—
i want to read every book,
absorb every word,
fill my mind like a library
that never burns.
maybe a black cat will guide me,
slip through the cracks,
and show me the way
out of this maze.
boo
boo
boo
boo
boo
boo
boo
boo