

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...


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...


Heaviness of Empty Space
All the space left from all the people I loved and lost Who knew emptiness carried such weight Tad's inappropriate jokes no longer make...


Waking
The morning light sneaks quietly into your through drooping curtains you have been meaning to fix. It seeps in slowly casting soft lines...


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...


Naked Hiker Mount Taranaki, New Zealand
"How can you love someone entirely if you don't know them entirely?" - Dylan, Lovesick. A lot of people have this idea the Love is...


Naked Hiker Waiheke Island, New Zealand
It was one of those few days I had the privilege of being off on weekend, at the same time at Regan. Maybe the first one in a week. I am...


Naked Hiker Bishop Castle, Co
"The past is only the future with the lights on" - +44 My first boyfriend had a five-year plan: Date for a year, move into an apartment...


Naked Hiker Dubrovnik, Croatia
I am scared. I am scared because all the darkness in me is so loud and heavy. I am scared because all the stories about people like me...


Naked Hiker Omanawa Falls, New Zealand
Somewhere between "Sex on Fire" and "Use somebody", Gravity had shifted. I was exactly where I was supposed to be. Finally, I had found...


Reason 32
The universe has its' way of bringing people together. Its' method are infinite. Our possibilities limitless. When I reached out via...


Naked Hikers, Kerosene Creek, Rotorua New Zealand
I have to be strong. I have to be strong for [insert the name of someone you love] while they are hurting. I can not cry or show my...