-For Papa Your moon-eyed gaze claims beauty anew Reminding emerald shooting stars of their start. In vibrant hues, the world is you. Graphite woods blush at your step, they whisper and admit They’ve never expected such unusual heart Your moon-eyed gaze claims beauty anew On inky sunset sands you stood, you lit Beams of gold […]
Trampoline Girl
When you fall in love with everything in your candied vision: Tracing shapes on fogged bathroom mirrors Laying your hazy head across a cat’s purring stomach Announcing to the room when the time is coincidentally 12:34 Claiming the beach and the mountains because you can’t just pick one Swaying to a dusty vinyl alone under […]
Hoping For Snow
What I want most of all Is for the crystallized tree tops To clumsily drop mounds of snow On our flushed noses and ears. For the white sky to release Miniature angels as a liaison Between Heaven and Earth. Each a labyrinth of unparalleled form, Glistening softly and delicately With each twist and turn of […]
Notes From the Drawing Board
This taxing process began around the age of four. I prayed every morning and every night that God would shed some grace and allow me to be what I wanted most in life- a cat. My idea of euphoria. Whiskers, a tail, and napping on window sills were my ultimate end goal and truthfully, I […]
What Teaching Dance to Eight-Year-Old’s Taught Me
My dance career began at the young age of three. My poor mother didn’t know what she got herself into when she took her dramatic girl to her first dance class (I love her endlessly for this nevertheless. The support I’ve received from my parents is unreal). Through the years of glittered eyelids, slicked buns, […]
Insta-apartment
There’s no question that there’s a ton of dialogue and research emphasizing the cons of social media outlets like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, etc (The “etc” I’m suggesting is obviously MySpace. Or scrolling through people’s Venmo transactions because don’t lie, I know you do). I think this post mostly deals with Instagram, as the title […]
These Are a Few of my Favorite Things
I feel like I truly am a fan of most things. Except math and country music and bugs and when babies cry on airplanes. But other than that, I’m usually impressed by the simplest things. I’m amused by how easily amused I am. I jump up and down at Target when I see a mug […]
The Lions’ Bell Chime
I have this habit of sitting in my car until the very last minute before walking into class. I don’t know what it is, but my Spotify playlists, seat warmers, and solitude never feel as great as it does until I have to soon abandon it in exchange for plastic chairs and overhead lighting *insert […]
Soap and Water
Maybe we’re all just a note Messily scribbled in black ink On the back of someone’s hand. Important enough To be frantically jotted down for Just a moment Yet temporary enough To be washed away mistakenly Or scrubbed off intentionally. Maybe rewritten Over and over and over again On top of the faded ghost format […]
October’s Pep Talk
The autumnal breeze whips my tangled hair Past my heavy, doubtful eyes And I begin to wonder. Worry. Waken. Sleep. We don’t need no mournful sound Shake your graveclothes to the ground ‘You know, when I think about it, What am I contributing?’ ‘What good is this moment?’ Time knows no friend, no bias. You […]
Haley Gilbertson 