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    • m.decapua
      • Apr 10, 2018
      • 1 min read

    "a fear of the dark" available now!

    My first full-length book, a fear of the dark, is now available for purchase or pre-order!


    This book is a collection of 70 original poems, the first of which were written almost ten years ago. Some familiar, some never-before-released -- all of these poems have been freshly revised and are ready for the real world! The poems tell a story of trauma, adolescence, and overcoming mental health issues. The book, along with a game that follows the same story, is my senior capstone (thesis) project at Champlain.


    To buy the book, please visit this link.

    If you would like to pre-order a signed copy, please fill out this form. It will take the book a little longer to get to you this way, as I am ordering the books in bundles of twenty.



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    • m.decapua
      • Feb 20, 2018
      • 1 min read

    Poem: I Told My Mother

    Updated: Nov 1, 2018

    I want to live

    in a bright pink house,

    with gardens on the sides.

    With bay windows

    and great skylights to

    fill my space with light.


    She shook her head, assured me

    that pink houses are just

    not the way the world works,

    that maybe my shutters

    can be dipped in violet

    and maybe ivy

    will wind its way up the walls,

    but a bright pink building?

    People will stare.


    Fast-forward fifteen

    years and I

    think back on these words,

    pulling a brush through

    magenta hair. This body

    is the only home I have

    but the dye

    that stains my skull like

    strawberry syrup, the ink

    planted like vines

    crawling up my arms,

    paint me

    a bubblegum building,

    gardens on the sides.


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    • m.decapua
      • Feb 6, 2018
      • 1 min read

    Poem: I Thought I’d Know by Now

    Updated: Nov 1, 2018

    At two weeks

    before twenty-two I feel

    like I’m living in

    a different body,

    my face softer,

    my mother in the mirror.

    I go through all the motions,

    my tallest five foot three reaching

    to pull a pasta box

    from the kitchen cupboard,

    my numbest human form

    pouring hard noodles

    into a burbling pot.

    I delight in the music

    of tumbling pieces splashing

    into the water.

    I stir the starch away,

    smile in front of the stove.


    I thought I’d know

    by now

    who I am,

    but here,

    stirring steam,

    I have transformed

    into something else entirely,

    softened

    by the damp heat.


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