Abby

I'm trying to care less about what other people think of me: trying not to perpetually perform for a…

The sea and sky have been entwined all day,

Both a pale granite grey.

A flat calm - clouds in the ri…

I burn my old poetry.

My shame is hotter than the fire.

I think:

You cannot cut down a tree and leav…

Start with a knife, a tree, a candle, a corpse. Start with a dead bird and its dead feathers spread …

There was a big thunderstorm in the night, starting at around 00.00. I thought the lightning was the…

(Blame the rum). God damn, I dreamed that I swallowed a pin. And the point took my throat and my v…

The alleyway was narrow and stank like shit.

Nat wasn't looking forward to meeting Seth. The animos…

I was wishing for October today:

Summer heat in the crooks of my arms;

On my cheeks and my neck,

And…

A spirit stood less than three feet from her door, waiting.

It was the old man again, the one she …

I think that all my friends must be astronauts...

They sure do love their space.

I'm not sure when fun became a fight.

Tiny, temperamental typed letters, once my allies, took up sa…