I’m sorry

I’m sorry to that sweet girlwhose dress I left in piecesand whose laughter I stole without knowing.I don’t remember her handson my chest,the way she said my namelike it could…

The garden

He walks the garden every morning, barefoot, dew-soaked soles pressing into the memory of her. The sun is lazy here, like it, too, remembers her warmth and doesn’t dare outshine…

“DIRT DON’T LIE”

Yo— I don’t talk to God, I just plant and wait, Hands in the mud while the pain translates. Trauma been root-deep, blood in the seed, But the garden don’t…