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

everything is on fire

or not. the water remains in the same damn

decimal place

*Published by dadakuku on 6/1/24

it's like when

a song slowly weaves itself

into your body

your bones

do you accept? you hear

what? you may ask

the gift of being unraveled

and respun into something more

like when the night

gives birth to a sky full of stars

or when we set fire

to a pantheon of unholy gods

*Published by Skyway Journal on 5/25/24

i'm here

said the crow to the dagger to the worms who

ate

you

in

(side)

out

*Published by dadakuku on 5/16/24

the ways we hate why the moon hides

*Published by Five Fleas (Itchy Poetry) on 3/9/24

a human

but also

an orchid

*Published by Five Fleas (Itchy Poetry) on 3/9/24

to feel peace

again

poppies bloom

*Published by Five Fleas (Itchy Poetry) on 3/9/24

soft rain

i give myself

permission to fail

*Published by Haikuniverse on 3/13/24

**Selected for inclusion in the 2024 Red Moon Anthology

a lobster boiling, unaware

of course

death has many names

*Published by Five Fleas (Itchy Poetry) on 3/9/24