❝the present was the present, and we didn't even know it.❞
dedicated to kjh and wb
highest ranking: #27 in poetry
- melted
- johanna means graceful
- seven year olds don't smoke cigarettes
- google "comedic segways"
- your star wars leggings
- an obsession with doctor pepper
- born in the seventies
- for you to bloom
- my friend infinity
- i hate the fact that you've gotten taller
- we listen to trash music
- life's socks
- an epidemic named mass hysteria
- if humans were chairs
- fishnets do not a mermaid make
- one day i forgot to exist
- say hello to the internet phenomenon
- hide and seek is a kid's game
- being a wannabe
- for some reason you want to hug me
- let's take a road trip to paris
- phrases i'll never say
- what accidents sound ambulance sirens
- the replacement mom friend
- hey siri, how does jealousy work
- you, shoving words into my fingertips
- wikihow not to fall in love with you
- are you there, g-d? it's me, i think
- a boy named joshua
- a new haircut to present december
- the cacophony of teenage brains
- it has never been that love
- introducing the zucchini brothers
- he's a dancer
- they are more than i could've asked for
- commenting on poetic justice
- dammit jim, i'm a doctor
- airdrop me a line
- you are stronger than you think
- sunborn sunbeams
- education through prayer
- soulmates aren't dollar coins
- if you were a day you would be tuesday
- i can't say a heartfelt thank you
- the ting goes "on a scale from 1 to 10"
- empathy complex
- put on my headphones so i drown twice
- qualified to be aesthetic
- it is transcribed atop my veins
- i barely even know your faces
- the theory of a kiss scene
- to what fans i think i have
- are you polaris or is it just the latitude
- publish my gibberish
- water lilies but it's high tide
- papier-mâché apparitions
- hi, i'm tyler
- yours, truly
- i want to gather all the beautiful words
- i will never forget who you are
- play your b7 chord, jimothy
- h is for "hello, i'm a trainwreck"
- couchbound
- heartbreak hotel but it's in cut time
- this isn't rocky iv and nobody is dying
- another day's absence
- the fried rice from downtown
- don't cite me
- dear future wife
- my lost boy
- i'm the quiet kind of happy
- missing choir
- i write about love a lot
- action, reaction
- even sugar cookies have a pinch of salt
- it's only when you're around
- she lives among the stars
- i'm missing someone i barely even know
- sorta kinda in love
- stumble on your words even in text
- shredders are not cheese graters
- i wonder if you think i'm witty
- breaking habits
- make me laugh in my sleep
- sign me up for the price is right
- i am no flower
- when did we change places
- i want to be a prince
- make a horse chug gallons
- give me seventy-four hoagies, stat
- i'm a conductor
- i admit my faults
- update, says the alarm
- pull-ups on a metal bar
- inhaling cans full of starlight
- always be creating
- blue isn't a sad color
- twenty-four hours of halftime
- the perfect catchy title
- one hundred stacked pennies
- cookie swapping
- my first christmas tree
- superproud, a superpower
- what rhymes with kazaam
- it was merely positioning
- was this what she meant
- with only one syllable
- wonder, in all its forms
- the meaning of idolatry
- and i laughed until i cried
- there's people here
- and crisp apple strudels
- home of the real italian pizza
- a whisper of a pitchpipe
- fluffy blankets aren't enough
- in order to transpose into any key
- soaring into the abyss
- a writer's dilemma
- welcome to alcoholics anonymous
- smile for the pictures
- sweeter sixteens
- five degrees on a sunday afternoon
- january first
- new canaan
- way too long
- to my friends who don't read
- maybe it's just being teen age
- i am nothing like you
- let's start in the middle
- there isn't much to be learned
- quantitative properties
- straight lines are not exactly so
- don't wish to start over
- a sinner's handbook
- long gone sean
- sentimental fools
- under the rainfall
- adjust to your happiness
- happy belated arbor day
- a scuffle is not a war, stephen
- enough of the raindrops
- too beautiful to comprehend
- information redacted
- two thousand and three
- we are less than pawns in this insanity
- granulated oceans
- i don't want to be a fanfiction writer
- that asian kid over in the corner
- all they ask for is a "how are you"
- he's a diamond among other gems
- this fine line between us
- it's not what's keeping me alive
- a question i ask myself daily
- less of a poem
- i say[,] hello[,] to everyone.
- seven seconds late
- kevin and the irony boards
- a california girl
- revolutionary, they said
- the big mood
- clark kent
- why i don't ramble just past midnight
- what the mind can do
- actors acting acts
- that girl who doesn't like that other girl
- the fallacy of love
- following in the footsteps
- the whirr of the wind
- the lone(ly) stairway (only) leads (only) to the second floor
- words are brain food not stomach food
- not quite an explanation (why i've been gone, part one)
- why i've been gone, part two, unedited.
- why i've been gone. part three.
- beasts and basements
- this is late(ly)
- asymptotic behavior
- hypothermia is not equivalent to seasonal depression
- poet to poet: 040890
- level, cleared
- the girl in the corner of the room
- i don't deserve a chance to be problematic (deleting in five)
- he is made of celadon jade
- a soft voice
- a love letter to distraction
- nostalgia analogous for advanced placement united states history
- a snow date for two
- what we don't say out loud
- invasive species
- thoughts from the stars
- a scientist subjected
- the sun and the moon
- until we are untold
- breathing between weak beats
- houston astronomical
- acting out intent
- who i am today
- annotate me
- the calm after the storm
- the best of us on this damn universe
- only for a little while