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He doesn't like when I call 'baby'.
He doesn’t like it when I call him ‘baby’. His eyes don’t light up the way yours once did To recognize the donning of my affection as a...
Emily Johns
Aug 2, 2023


Stages I
Age seven – Dandelion picking, round glasses adorned Toad catching girl My aquarius moon at its most unsinkable Blamelessly palatable A better painter than a liar Today I will try again to be kind to you. Let the sun dress your skin but not burn your eyes Brush your tangled hair and hum under my breath, I love you i love you i love you. Everyday I remove further from you beyond my consent A dream robbed by day break I replay your voice in my head until words are only words S
Emily Johns
Aug 2, 2023


To Write Something Happy
If only to be happy wasn’t a precarious breeding ground for art! My closed grin is a hostile passage for words beyond my vocabulary An...
Emily Johns
Aug 2, 2023


Training Wheels
The delicate dance of romanticizing the finite To look her in the eye again with the all too familiar tunnel vision Ignoring the...
Emily Johns
Aug 2, 2023


A Love Letter On the Tip of My Tongue
To you Every love I have never been entitled to The ones I can never tell if I ever had any authority to call ‘love’ But can never be...
Emily Johns
Aug 2, 2023


Sentimental and Sensitive
The skeleton in my closet wears a virgin wool knit sweater that hasn’t fit me since the tenth grade. Though her wrists hang an inch...
Emily Johns
Aug 2, 2023


The Mother
My baby girl. I crave nothing more than to surrender To ease the burden of carrying you To bask in the penumbra of a shadow long untended...
Emily Johns
Aug 2, 2023


the first night
The foreshadowed reluctance that then painted the walls Has since dried The colours always refract a little brighter the morning after...
Emily Johns
Nov 15, 2022


i know how the conversation ends.
The restaurant is empty on a tuesday afternoon when familiarity tells me I will die not of old age, but instead a sour soul. I know how...
Emily Johns
Nov 14, 2022


co-dependence in decay
I wonder in reflection of your capacity to turn two weeks into an eternity you pride yourself as virtuous. Where I thought would snap and...
Emily Johns
Nov 14, 2022


i still look for you
Within the empty shade of sanguine And last week’s paper, unopened Tangibly lives your phantom Caught betwixt leaving and having left...
Emily Johns
Nov 14, 2022


found in the real world (incomplete)
Like black coffee, razor-burned alternatives and autumn to spring Freedom in a travel sized package is his drink of choice A smooth...
Emily Johns
Nov 14, 2022
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