I would tear down the stars with my anger,
uproot the earth with my grief 
& cry an ocean to swim to you,
waiting just as you were. 
I would stretch the boundaries of time 
to make a world where you are 
alive. 

.Laura Curren.













Your eyes sing to me.
Music plays in your pupils 
& I want to dance.

















My ex boyfriend in college
was slowly collecting all my details
& discovering I could be quite the mess maker,
that I could really wear my heart on my sleeve
in the form of dishes & clothes becoming summits,
in the form of arbitrary trash
& sacrificed toothpaste all over the sink.
All my thoughts could swell
into on