You said you wanted me to understand, and then you didn’t speak for a century. My sweet, suffering paper doll, impossible to perceive, kneeling to worship, worsening and healing, closed off but still feeling, praying for nothing, but still stuck in the routine. Our heaven is a hazy room atop a tower. Flowers litter the…

Jewels dance through the sky, owned by nobody, admired by the dreamers and doomers alike, never to be forgotten, never to be seen through the same eyes, always willing to hear me when I pray. Long into the night, of which there will be many, violets fall from the moon’s smiling mouth, endlessly aware that…

Just let me sleep, on a bed of beautiful lavender, all gathered from a grateful garden, never asking, never taking, always with a smile. Long before I was born, on a Saturday, when the moon was up to mischief, violets sprang from soft soil, lavender, lilacs, each, hoping to visit with me, simply to say…