stephanie roberts

You fill a hungry place shaped like your darkness.

Baby, don't build a monument for me of your sadness. You wouldn't have wasted your tears when I was alive. Why make an ocean of them now when it's over? The future you dreamed is a dream. Dream something else.

Editing fiction is like using your fingers to untangle the hair of someone you love.

Why not laugh again, and let your joy be my monument?

I am protective of the gentle slope of stomach bulging like an early pregnancy, at my waist. I've earned its existence with everything I've been forced to swallow.

Nostalgia is best cured via horse whipping.

i__ going to love again so quietlyno one will know i__ home.