A memoir in progress, about living life in unruly bodies
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 […]
MoreI 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 […]
MoreWe 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 […]
MoreDon’t get it twisted I yell it, because I mean it Your job is not to change To mold To morph Your job is to love Love because of Love in spite of Love even though You don’t understand You can’t stand A future different from the one You were promised By your mind’s eye […]
MoreLine after line in the sidewalk, That’s all I could see. Other kids would jump around, leap past me, bent over in my periphery Grabbing at roly polies. But not me, So careful was I, watching the lines. Watching the cracks in the pavement. Step on a crack break your mother’s back! All it took was to […]
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