A Gift for You
Dear you, This time of year is usually blown up, blown out, over-the-top, commercialized, and drawn out. It can be exhausting, I know. However: this time of year is a…
Month: December 2018
Is it the Copper IUD?
I was laying in my lover’s arms, crying that I had to learn what it meant to be alone. Perhaps it was the copper IUD I had inserted inside of…
I am.
I am a woman. I live where I live. I put myself first so that I can support me. I am resourceful. And brave. I break down to cry so…
Eyes on Me
“You ever play quarters?” He grinned at me the tip jar halfway ‘tween us and the boiling coffee: bubbled brew and I felt just as black inside my head. But…
The Get Together
“I have never seen your place so illuminated.” Walking into my apartment with a platter of sliced apples topped with goat cheese and smoked trout, his eyes scanned the brightly…
Burden of Yesterday (Time’s Up)
There is a deep satisfaction of white paper filling with glossy inked truthfulness. The tension releases from my body as my heart throbs against the carpeted floor. Notebooks gather in…
I Didn’t Stay.
Were you holding me back or letting me through the portal in the wall: I saw the other side, Did you? See it too — I mean, could you? Or…
Connection
I held my friend’s child relieving her armsas we caught up on the pulse of our lives.And I felt a gentleness in my heartthat awakens with a yawnwhenever I witness (the exhaustion)of mother’s love.
The Day Between 