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this isn't

the first life you've lived

and every

creature in the forest

shudders

at the whisper of your

secret name

*Published by Skyway Journal on 1/1/26

i was

the river

and so

were you

*Published by Five Fleas (Itchy Poetry) on 12/28/25

you too can be a conjunction

*Published by Five Fleas (Itchy Poetry) on 12/28/25

average Tuesday

(licking sweat off Vega)

*Published by dadakuku on 11/15/25

chainsaw c'mon trust me

*Published by smols on 11/4/25

night ripped off the bone

*Published by smols on 11/4/25

softest breeze

i wish you had been

my first husband

*Published by Five Fleas (Itchy Poetry) on 10/26/25

you become comfortable

with the thought of dying. The roughness

of her hands

*Published by dadakuku on 9/27/25

also a candle

where the wild raspberries combust

into moonlight

*Published by dadakuku on 7/15/25

to leave

or not

permanent twilight

*Published by Five Fleas (Itchy Poetry) on 6/25/25

ssstatic the ego so easily shreds

*Published by Five Fleas (Itchy Poetry) on 6/25/25

lava like i know

how to chill

*Published by Five Fleas (Itchy Poetry) on 6/25/25

y is for

you

((can gas your neighbor now))

*Published by dadakuku on 6/24/25

written in dynamite

dog i bite too

*Published by dadakuku on 6/6/25

[entity missing]

shows a girl

to love a dagger

*Published by dadakuku on 5/12/25

dove or vulture

i can no longer

tell the difference

*Published by Five Fleas (Itchy Poetry) on 12/14/24

all that remains in a bang the concept of a violet

*Published by Five Fleas (Itchy Poetry) on 12/14/24

gunshot

and you thought he asked

for some sweet permission

*Published by dadakuku on 12/17/24

blink & all roads converge into a comma

*Published by Five Fleas (Itchy Poetry) on 12/14/24

all this dusk burning my story

*Published in Five Fleas (Itchy Poetry) on 6/25/24

ossify

and all i felt was the slowly

exploding bomb in my face (a fairly

inconsequential setback, perhaps)

*Published by dadakuku on 7/8/24

and maybe it was too hard

for you

to stop the ivy

from spreading

from choking off

the oak

*Published by Five Fleas (Itchy Poetry) on 6/25/24

solstice or the inferno of same same

*Published by Five Fleas (Itchy Poetry) on 6/25/24

so you crush moonlight

i too

fight the past tense

*Published by Five Fleas (Itchy Poetry) on 6/2/24

lorem ipsum

the forests

i have created

the forests

i cannot burn

*Published by Five Fleas (Itchy Poetry) on 6/2/24