i. cover up. you shouldn’t show your knees, your shoulders, or your chest. otherwise, you run the risk of making men uncomfortable. and...

The shadow follows me everywhere in the form of a black cat. Lonely and desperate. Longing for attention. Sad and miserable. Soulless....

Let your light so shine A light on the hill Lit up in rainbow colors For the world to see All my life I was told it’s a sin To indulge...

you’re homesick for a place that doesn’t exist— they call this hiraeth, a word which sounds all too pleasant for what it means— for what...

It is 2 pm and my mind is loud I know only one way to silence it. I tear my skin apart, This skin that fits too tight I run the blade...

this is where everyone comes to meet their bird of paradise, the posters say in fine printed blood. you tremble. this is where everyone...

If the church is the body of Christ, Then I am a sliver that the body slowly expelled. I think slivers want to stay in the body. Little...

Poem Number 1: The Wrong Order They messed up my order, I'm not a girl. I must have someone else's body. The fit is all wrong, too tight...

if somehow, what I know in my gut to be true and what God has told me Himself speaking to my soul to be true ends up being a falsified...

I’m only seven when I hear it first. “My mom says that my uncle can’t come over anymore because he’s gay.” “What’s gay?” I rub the corner...

“Mom, how do you know what gender a baby is?” She looked up from the dishes I didn’t like that look “Oh, moms just, know!” “But how?” And...

I didn’t come out again this weekend. I defended people who do. I’m not really in the closet. Everyone who matters and most of the people...

I tried to write a sad poem because the ache had gone from my head to my chest and I Couldn’t remember why it was I’d decided to take a...

Elephants worship the moon Or so I've been told, waving branches and boughs in their holy places. The moon never answers back, of course,...

You would do anything for me, sure You never loved me the way I loved you You only love me when I'm gone He only loves me when I'm here...

A thousand years ago I stood on the passenger seat of your car, head through the skylight, arms high up in the darkness, hands waving at...

I wish I could understand it. I wish I could explain it. When he’s here the grief is overwhelming. The grief that it’s not her. The grief...

As a child, I loved playing with my siblings and singing songs in primary. As a youth, I read my scriptures and prayed I would meet my...

Her smile mirrors my emotion when I share my moments of joy that are mile markers in my struggle. She travels with me in and out of the...

I was born with my crown of glory A beautiful curly, kinky, queer mass of blackish-brown I was born with my crown of glory Its bounce,...