Naked Hiker Backbay, California, USA
"Can I ask you questions?" "Of course you can. I'll do my best to answer them," She hesistates, looks around the sterile office, "Do you...
Ohana Means Family
When does a tattoo become a scar? When 'Ohana' is scrawled across your wrist. When family, the thing that should protect you, is the...
Because You Wanted Me to Pray
I have peace
Naked Hiker Anawhata Beach, New Zealand
I've been thinking a lot about purpose lately. Mainly because I have finally found a job (Don't even get me started on how much I love my...
Hands were meant for growth
These hands were meant to hold Caress, cuddle, keep safe Fingertips tingling Body trembling What happens when we are no longer allowed to...
Naked Hiker Pakiri Regional Park, New Zealand
You Are Too Much. The echo rings in the silent spaces of my mind. I carry these words across an island, an ocean and back again. Their...
New Year's Day
New Year. Yet it feels like last year, like a reset or deja vu. There are fireworks at midnight but no one to kiss. I am in the same...
Finding Purpose in Tragedy
"Nik we need all medics..." static cuts the clarity of the situation. I rise and make my way out of the rig. "On my way. repeat message,...
Poisoned Roots
It creeps up slowly like a sinking sunset. Like tainted water being soaked up at the roots, I don't realize that it has seeped in until...
Passport Wings
When I was 16, I was gifted wings in the form of passport pages. I took flight like a Swift, migrating for months and years. Never...
Babydoll
I love you like Babydoll in your southern drawl Records spinning in the lounge Your voice filling the airwaves I love you like One ring...
Connective Gravity
Part I Outside a storm is raging. The wind howls and beats wildly on the window panes. We are stoned and semi-unaware of the natural...
Naked Hiker Landscape Arch, Arches National Park, Utah
I did not ask to be born. But one day I was. I came crashing into this world at 2 am. You fainted as I arrived. Was it because of the...
Naked Hiker Mount Baldy, Ca
I have been using this quarantine time to satisfy my love of learning and curiosity (about basically everything) through reading and...
Naked Hiker Got Out of Bed Today
Give it a name and make it something outside yourself. Dark. Dark is the only man that always wants to hold my hand. He likes to show me...
