So excited (and nervous) to announce that my latest poetry collection “Upon Departure” was just released today. This is a collection of...

I can’t make the world be peaceful I can’t stall tanks from roaring down roads I can’t prevent children from having to hide in bunkers I...

my love, quit waiting on someone else to finally love you the way that you deserve to be loved you only get so much time here quit...

God dried his tears and waited for the next brand new soul to enter the departure room. The Divine drew a slow deep breath. Time stopped...

"Remedy" has been PUBLISHED! I'm profoundly terrified and excited to announce that my newest collection of poetry is now available for...

~COMING SOON TO A HEART NEAR YOURS~ The 40 poems included in this collection are all the prescriptions that my invisible angelic doctors...

if you can still cry it means you can still breathe and if you can still breathe it means you are still alive and if you are still alive...

I was born with a last name and all the expectations that came with it from birth, I was crafted to be an origami swan to have perfectly...

Me: Hey God. God: Hey John. Me: What should I say to somebody who is about to die? God: The exact same things you should say to everybody...

Long before there were any stars When the great empty void was packed full of a hundred-thousand other even emptier voids There was a...

“Why haven’t you quit yet?” My Depression asked me as I sat fully clothed in my empty bathtub. I didn’t answer. Instead, I just stared at...

(this poem was formerly titled "How to Live With My Body" There is only inhale There is only exhale There is only this moment There is...

Me: Hey God. God: Hey John. Me: I'm about to break. God: Why do you think that is? Me: Because life just keeps getting harder. God: Then...

be so very careful when trying to fit in with everybody else because you just might ~ stay fully wild, star child ride your watermelon...

my brain and heart divorced a decade ago over who was to blame about how big of a mess I have become eventually, they couldn't be in the...

Don't change! ... Become! Become! Become who I made you to be.

normal had its time as the DJ ~ normal played the same songs over and over

Look, grief doesn't always mean being sad. Grief can arrive equally in laughter and anger.