A New Kind of Literary Pulse

i did a drum lesson on facetime
today, everything clumsy

i think i’m doing Okay™ but ...  [+]

I am an overclocked engine
Operating at the highest capacity
Taking flight when it should not ...  [+]

I didn’t know where to start, so I tried writing this poem like an essay- organized, structured ...  [+]

I am standing over a newly dug open grave.
Under the beautiful blue sky, in Nigeria,
The sun ...  [+]

I hear there’s a spring
filled with mountain blood.

And when you drink from it
you ...  [+]

Branches swing against my windowpane
A repetitive movement that slows in the summer
And ...  [+]

Every step is forced, intense. Her
pacing is out of sync with the sidewalk cracks. One, two ...  [+]

I touch my hand to the grass and it comes away wet so
I am unable to sit down.
How my hand ...  [+]

Not hard to identify, you,
sweet, familiar, within reach ...  [+]

I am leaving for college tomorrow and
I am afraid that when I return home next
my bedroom ...  [+]

Do you think it’s my fault?
I’m beginning to think it is.
I sit in a locked room.
Fou ...  [+]

Life rings of eternity

So stuck in fall I didn’t see if before,
rebirth after rebirth ...  [+]

I’ve got forty lines for a poem,
Maybe three hundred words if I’m clever,
But I have no clue ...  [+]