Rae : Writing

Repetition

Repetition

A Poem by Rae


What makes you feel alive?Do it. Do it again.Do it so many times that you can feelthe marrow of your bonesache with emotion.I want you to understand s..
Chapter One

Chapter One

A Poem by Rae


Her face covered up her bed sheet thoughts.To have her. To have her back. To have her there. To have her voice inside those bed sheet thoughts..
Anxiety Series

Anxiety Series

A Poem by Rae


I thought I saw your shadow today.It was elsewhere.Your shadow was a moth,flying upwards past my city window. Your shadow turned to face my discovery,..
Jealousy

Jealousy

A Poem by Rae


I'm scared thatthe pit in my stomachis where I liveand that one dayyou'll live theretoo.You are as beautifuland spiritedas the fawnI see when I'm happ..
Uptown

Uptown

A Poem by Rae


The streets felt like home because I was my only home and they were mean to me and I was mean to myself I studied. We laughed with teeth out. Th..
A Spectrum of Weather

A Spectrum of Weather

A Poem by Rae


"Why did you choose to love her?" They always asked. I loved how her slender fingers held a strawberry. I loved the playgrounds and temples ..
Saltwater

Saltwater

A Poem by Rae


She rose up like a mountain through the paleness of my fixated breaths, through the cracks of each hot aired sigh t..
Visualizations Are Assumptions

Visualizations Are Assumptions

A Poem by Rae


I was someone who had no guiding idea of what life meant to me and whether or not I was unhappy was irrelevant because I was and my friends were to..
When We Broke Up

When We Broke Up

A Poem by Rae


When we broke up you started calling things “gay” again. And, my dear, of all the simpl..
She Dreamed of Speech

She Dreamed of Speech

A Poem by Rae


You could tell that she was sad by what she was wearing.Her chest was bleeding a black t-shirt with no patterned pur..