Melissa Rose Miller

He opens the cupboard A set of coffee cups —The first picks of course With their voluptuous curvature And the type of handles That a...

Only hours away I was taking you To the happiest place on earth — a birthday gift I wanted to share with you… Foolish to think you...

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever f r e e . ” Remember reading for the sensual and emotional Pleasure And remember writing for...

Poetry is the language of the soul. It expresses everything from the everyday trifles to the profound wonders of the universe. Poetry can...

I stare into the night No moon; the pickup’s headlights stare At their invisible friends or lovers, Everybody trying to get to a...

Then, I said good-bye, and I drove home. I read the book again that night because I knew that if I didn’t, I would probably start crying...

A cup of coffee, Too hot to drink. He was reading Gandhi, And she was in her ink. What are you writing? He wished to ask. But voiceless...

“Zoom cameras must be on” foreign faces behind distant screens with some opaque boxes of names that you’ll never put a face to. “You must...

Cody Smith's full length video, "Shift" represents the transition of one's proximity to California, as most of the skateboarders featured...

How hath you claim to love me — And yet you pierce me with your hatred. Stabbing underneath the skin, Jolting my being, perpetrating my...

Oh, how you play me with those deceiving eyes, An innocent look redressing your cunning lies. What lover? You’re yet a stranger, in the...

The vacancy of midnight Shone of flickering street lights Precipitating the hot, summer air The spiritless strips of Long Beach The...

There was a new girl at my work — however, this wasn’t unusual due to the high turnover at my job. I worked at Jack’s Surfboards where...

I lie awake, I lie alone. Living for myself, in terms that I, Departing from this world, only but the bone. Temporary waves of people,...

My boyfriend Cody and I have a tradition of drawing each other’s blind contour portrait every time we go to Denny’s. We draw on the blank...