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14 Anxiety poems
05/04/2025 00:00h
The waiting room at the clinic
i've been coming here two years
the magazines are still from 2019
the chair still makes that sound
i feel okay here
which took a long time
to feel okay about
08/09/2024 00:00h
Nobody told me about the forms
the constant forms
for everything
health insurance forms
tax forms
lease forms
somewhere there's a form
for learning about all the forms
i haven't found it
07/03/2024 00:00h
the spiral starts with something small
and then it's everything
and then it's everything that could go wrong
and then it's everything that has gone wrong
and then i breathe
and it's smaller
but it was big for a while
06/16/2023 00:00h
My brain makes a sound
when i'm anxious
not a literal sound
more like a frequency
underneath everything else
some days i don't notice it
most days i do