I realize that I am depressed again. Everything seems fine, but so did The calm before the collision The sunshine before the clouds rolled in The crisp air before the forest engulfed in flames. All is

"Matt's Poem" Why am I falling in love with you? It is in the way you looked at me the first time we met. Like I was coming home to a house that longed for my footsteps on its floors, my reflection

It was an average Thursday morning. I woke up, got the kids ready for school and dropped off on time, ran my errands. I was bored and had no other plan for the day, so I decided to poke into my local thrift

I set out to write you a poem, because I tell my best friend about you every day. "He is my calm and quiet." "He is my safe place." But every keystroke feels wrong tonight, nothing's

Today I noticed that my hand feels lighter. Sure, I have felt it before. The day I took my rings off it was unsettling. I found myself fidgeting with a band that was not there Turning an invisible pearl

Hi all! Starting next week I will be doing a weekly series called Lowe Expectations("Lowe" being a play on words using my last name). I will be giving honest reviews and input on "girly"

I want to do something dangerous But not the kind of dangerous your mother lays awake at night hoping you won't do Not the kind where you cut across five lanes of traffic To spontaneously get on the highway

Act I: She let new men touch her how they pleased Because maybe if she pleases She will find her self-worth at the end of their orgasm. She leaves their houses feeling more empty than she did before they

Whomever it was that decided Mental illness is a beautiful thing Should see what depression actually looks like. It is hair that has not seen a brush in days, washed in a week. What the hell does my shampoo

Anyone who has ever lost someone, Knows what it is like to write a letter to a dead person. Sometimes spoken to an empty room, shouted at molecules you wish were there. Sometimes lifted in prayer. Sometimes

I know what being dead inside is. Fossilized, I've felt it every day. Since he, scattered his saurian footprints across the landscape of ash left after my Paleozoic spews, In this chest of heaving tectonics

Everyday, I will go to the bar you took me to, because it was your favorite. And I'll have one of those bitter, terrible "craft" things I tried... because it was your favorite. Maybe, one night

Darling, lay me down, I'm your toy and you're my drug. Darling, rip those buttons off, Different intentions met by the same means. I love the shapes your mouth makes when you talk, you love the way my

I don't want to remember that your little boys are named Liam and Mason. ...Or who has the scar on his cheek, or when Mason plays soccer, or what their smiles look like... Like yours. I don't want to remember

Your smile cracks like fireworks, My knees crack like I'm about to pray to gods never believed in before... Tonight. Your hands clench the strings of me, Speak so I can seek freedom like a balloon released.

I woke up today, And in the rupture points I found flickers of light... Where there had been only darkness before. I woke up today, And instead of feeling like the air was being sucked from my lungs, I

Today I took my ring off, And stowed it safely in a silver box, Etched with initials that are not mine. The only good thing about getting divorced before you have had the chance to change your name Is

How do you protect delicate things? My heart knows this pain. My heart has fault lines, tectonic plates. Maybe not always moving, maybe not always gasping, maybe not always gaped open, but always a splintered

I'm sitting here thinking, while the baby sleeps on my lap That I wish my mind was as quiet as this house. That I wish the emptiness churning in my chest was only a ceiling fan blade clicking through rotations