#napowrimo16

napowrimo day 27 // dining hall

napowrimo day 26 // addressing the boys i have slept with

[aka the most “me” poem i will ever write]

napowrimo day 25 // from the inside of a mouth not my own

napowrimo day 24 // layers

napowrimo day 23 // q&a with ghosts ii

napowrimo day 22 // elegy for cheryl

napowrimo day 21 // how is your heart? (after charles bukowski)

[fun fact about me: “what matters most is how well you walk through the fire” is tattooed on my left shoulderblade because i’m a sucker for the beats]

napowrimo day 20 // stress dream

[aka i wrote this after writing a ten-page cognitive neuroscience paper. science rules, kids, stay in school]

napowrimo day 19 // a seven-step guide to achieving nirvana in college

napowrimo day 18 // blacklight confessions

napowrimo day 17 // the one-night stand poem

[aka when u have a whirlwind weekend filled with day drinking but then have to get ur shit together]

napowrimo day 16 // the rites of spring

napowrimo day 15 // drunk dial

napowrimo day 14 // armageddon

(30 minutes late)

napowrimo day 13 // skydiving in alaska

napowrimo day 16 // on being from mississippi after the passage of hb-1523

napowrimo day 11 // tropical medicine

[sorry this poem is so gross, neurosurgery is so fuckin wild. don’t google hydatid cyst unless you don’t get nauseous easily]

napowrimo day 10 // q&a with ghosts (inspired by siken but like what’s new)

napowrimo day 9 // to the lady who told me women shouldn’t run

[alternate title: in defense of my sport against someone who clearly hasn’t heard that they debunked that myth about our uteruses falling out when we run]