What does success mean for people in their twenties? Am I successful just because I finished my undergraduate degree? Do I not reach success until I complete a graduate program? I’ve been out of school for a year and a half, in the traditional workforce for just over a year, and I can’t seem to decide if I’ve reached an amount of success for my generation.
There’s this existential dread That is seeping in This— Pressure building Like a shaken soda can Whispering the fizzles Of the explosion about to burst Before the whistling Of hydrogen gas escaping. I never seem to be short of advice Of how to grow up right. Each rule for perfection Wrapped up tight in contradiction. […]
When I was eighteen, I could not help but notice, like all teenagers inevitably do, that the world was pretty terrible. There was this anxiety that anything good to come from activism would be ripped away, chipped away like a sculptor chiseling marble. There are days that I still feel this way. However, somewhere during […]
I remember feeling the world spinning when I was standing still Every decision felt like moving marble stone to create foundations for buildings I had yet to design I just wished someone had told me those marble stones were made of plaster still heavy but with the capability to be chiseled and moved. Look at […]
Six months ago, I finished an AmeriCorps program with Northern Bedrock Historic Preservation Corps. At the end of this job, I moved back home, back into my bedroom from high school complete with shared bathroom. Since I moved home, I have created a professional life for myself in the form of work at the […]
Let’s be friends
Friends like the we text every day
Friends like those that finish each other’s—
–sentences…
That lean into one another’s space the same way
Flowers grow at the base of trees
Roots intertwining
Mingling
Growing from the same environment
Like when you met me.
When 2022 first started, I wondered if I would be like those girls from Christian colleges—the ring before spring crowd.
nothing changes.
Dearly beloved
We are gathered here today
to celebrate the union
restoring a house is scary
scarier than what you find crawling up beneath the floor boards
I was scared the first time the wood rotted through.