This poem was inspired by an installation at an art museum of old polioid photos of run down motels

Friends getting lost in conversation

Flowers are life's great distractiors

A love letter to Van Gogh's sunflower paintings

I thought happiness was something I could do on my owm

This poem is about the modern artist Jean-Michel Basquiat and how he came to from nothing to fame.

A classic Villanelle styled poem about the Western frontier

Depression is an illness that spreads through your body and keeps you up at night.

Our hearts endure it all

Never being present

Voices that never leave

My time in a mental hospital.

Tower

Emptiness is a lonely feeling