did you know

that peonies can live

for more than 100 years

and sometimes

a poem doesn't need to be

about anything more

than that

*Published by Fresh Out: An Arts and Poetry Collective on 4/23/23

before the wildflowers

i am only

a shadow

*

and then i turned to him and said

listen to the highway

it sounds like death

*Published by Five Fleas (Itchy Poetry) on 4/19/23

 under a

growl you

adorn me

*

the mud

above the moss

above the corpse

*Published by horror senryu journal on 3/10/23