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pickle juice
The cold February air charges through the door as you walk in, stomping and shaking the once delicate snowflakes onto our floor. You...

Samantha Drake-Flam
Mar 141 min read
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an ode to marbleÂ
the cold water of the crystal river that traces the land of marble dogs slumped on couch laugher in the dusk of the evening brisk...

Samantha Drake-Flam
Sep 2, 20241 min read
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Love For Me
Love for me comes in all forms. It has been the deepest hunger I've felt to know someone, The motion of their breath, shape in the dark,...

Samantha Drake-Flam
Jul 27, 20241 min read
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an afternoon run
i’m here just repeating your address over and over in my head as i fuel my lungs with stabbing pain gasping instead of feeling the sting...

Samantha Drake-Flam
Jul 27, 20241 min read
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A PEACH!
i ate a peach on the front steps i ate it with no thought in my mind blank blank mind, drip drip juice suddenly an image intruded. have...

Samantha Drake-Flam
Jul 27, 20241 min read
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Red Curtains
You called me Mable. As the red curtains swayed you’d tell me stories of the old neighbors. They used to play the accordion late at...

Samantha Drake-Flam
Jul 27, 20241 min read
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a wilted love
the love wilted and withered crunched into a dry flower that was once life filled and radiant now a being of death and decay that engulfs...

Samantha Drake-Flam
Jul 10, 20241 min read
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A Table With Two Legs
All of us humans are unstable to some degree, We all have nicks in our beings, trauma that chips away at our sanity, And scarred our...

Samantha Drake-Flam
Nov 10, 20232 min read
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Now
6 months have passed and the world still reminds me of you. The Green Turtle, laying her eggs in the sand as I became a witness to her...

Samantha Drake-Flam
Nov 10, 20231 min read
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Speaking To Another Lost Being
I met a girl the other day who had a miscarriage. Within the first hour of our meeting we held each other in safe enough space to share...

Samantha Drake-Flam
Nov 10, 20231 min read
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empty home
we ate soup. you said it sounded so quiet in the house it was no quieter than usual, grandpa never made much sound anyway. the silence of...

Samantha Drake-Flam
Jul 25, 20231 min read
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orange peels and cherry pits
i remember sitting there with you talking about the mountains and nature that surrounded us we felt minuscule amongst the stature of the...

Samantha Drake-Flam
Jul 25, 20231 min read
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Dads House
the mason jars that serve as drinking glasses the four plants that complete your collection all gathered at one window the dust that...

Samantha Drake-Flam
Jul 25, 20231 min read
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Human
there are little glimpses of life that i remember it’s when i’m around people they remind me to slow down they remind me i’m alive human...

Samantha Drake-Flam
Jul 25, 20231 min read
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