All the men I love but have learned to fear
The first thing my best friend did when I told him my partner and I had broken up was ask for nudes. […]
The first thing my best friend did when I told him my partner and I had broken up was ask for nudes. […]
I want to be someone that creates a bonfire out of your darkness and dances with you around it until we conjure up spirits like a laser show, only for you to realise you were the light all along. […]
Could you set me on a train to New York City, Finn Hudson style, if you knew I’d give it all up for you? So one day I could say, ‘I’m Home,’ and mean it? […]
Could we go back? To the day we met? Not because I want a do over but… I just want to feel everything, again. Again and again and again. […]
The way that I learnt masculinity was first through using wood: trips to Bunnings in the red four runner, choosing long slabs of timber, building bookshelves and beds in the garage. And then it was dirt: digging holes to mend pipes, jeans covered in mud, dad getting angry when I didn’t realise I’d be getting […]
know me just know me the mortifying ordeal of being known I’ll let you love me got a soul as raw as her father trauma as gnarled as tree roots my bones are yours to deconstruct my flesh to destroy I’m yours to destroy destruction is a kind of creation or, re-creation tender […]
For once in my life I don’t want to do depraved things I don’t want to look into your eyes as you spit in my mouth I don’t want to hurt to split apart I want to be soft and leave you soft […]
I forgot to read The Alchemist when everybody told me to so I pretended I had. And I forgot to watch The Matrix for three school years in a row (and maybe that was an intentional resistance to authority) but even so, for three years I wrote essays about red and blue pills. And then […]
One year and Three hair colours between Two photos. Has it been a lifetime? Or just a moment? My soul is tired. My heart hurts more often than it doesn’t. Every time I survive the worst waves and start treading water and start catching my breath and start believing land might be somewhere on the […]