Capital N-O
“You can say No” you tell me. My eyes burn with tears from your sweet intensity — You slip your hand into mine and gently take a squeeze. Prompting me…
Tag: learning
People: Start your engines
If this is how the world goes round I want to see the engine And make some sense of up and down the looseness and the tension. I want to…
Overcoming
There’s a familiar pulse (as I point to my chest) and it thumps with a fury when the sleepy warmth of comfortable success begins to unfurl its glory. “That’s not…
Human Being Human
I wonder where I’m going I wonder where I’ll get to I wonder what my stone might say in the graveyard when it’s all through. I’m frightened of aloneness I’m…
Hospice Training: A Change in Perspective
Yesterday, in a training for upcoming hospice volunteering, I was asked the following: Who are the 4 most important people in your life? What are your 4 most important possessions?…
let’s tidy up my mind
Please take your soppy mop And swish it through my mind I have a couple memories there That I’d appreciate you find And swiffer jet that shit away To dump…
Bilingual
I’m reading all the books and somehow I don’t have all the answers. There’s a pinch in my heart, a weight on my chest, and the thump in its…
bystander
Last night I dreamt of dolphins atop the water’s froth but before I could spark a laugh a woman ran down the beach flip flops flying off bare feet and…
The Day Between 