BodyParts
A memoir in progress, about living life in unruly bodies
I wish for you
That when the bullies came for you You held the line And stepped into the power That the shewolves that came before you Granted you In your skin Your hair The texture of your flesh And that the only reason to ever look back from that line you held, was to see how far you’ve […]
MoreI google your name
I google your name When I miss you So lost For contact You’re so alive In the still frames The profiles Of hope Promise and future I google your name When I miss you Like I’ll stumble on news That the goodbye was a mistake That you’ll be back next week You’re so alive In […]
MoreForever mine
I miss you I’ve been missing you I had hope you’d come back That the anger would thaw That we’d get to hug And I’d hear you say “hey” In the way that you did Even when deep in pain And we’d started to walk Quietly back Toward each other Though gently So you wouldn’t […]
MoreA poem for our times
I feel tired We all do So I don’t call you out For the way you dismissed me Or the way I hurt Because we all hurt We’re all tired So let it be Let it rest Give some grace And do your best I feel tired We all do We all do We all […]
MoreSameness on lock
We think our traumas Are the things That leave marks Big and violent We think our worlds Were fine The way they were Small and exclusive We think rebuilding Means fixing what was Going back to the what we know Familiar and comfortable What we don’t stop to think To realize Is our worlds The […]
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