I didn’t know I had lost hope until she showed it to me. She insisted her hope, forced me to at least consider its possibility. I had to cry out my doubt, cry a lot, to make room for it. It was awkward at first, living with a stranger but eventually the hope set it, […]
I am built from an egg that formed in the womb of my grandmother, which contained instructions for my forming, birthing, growing, and even my ability to support life. Different parts of me have been slowly unfolding all my life without my knowledge or permission; and even though I don’t know about them, I believe […]
You are never hungry But you cannot taste You are completely safe But you cannot see You are always warm But you cannot feel the sun The closest to utopia you will ever be is in the womb of your mother. If you had a choice, would you stay? Maybe you did chose, and maybe […]
These days, I am shucking time, running my hands over every moment, I feel them as they pass and I ask each one- are you the Now where it begins? So far, they are silent, I let them fall beneath me. And because I am made to wait, I have made contact with more […]
What god or scientific forcewould put the Sun and Moon on courseto grant us an eclipse?What scale of relativitywould make their size appear to bea truly perfect fit? On other days, they square with Mars,or some assembly of starsin geometric rhyme.The triangle protracts through spacethen flattens, and, with winking face,to us they just aligned. A […]
On the eve of the eclipse, she slept with her head downhill, and woke to the sound of woodpeckers chiseling their faces into the forest, and, when she rose to look for them, she found, instead, a green plump grasshopper, which she showed to another camper, through the thin screen of his tent, with a […]
Outside my office window- a flat patch of land where a home once stood no shadow, fresh dirt, I cant remember it, exactly. Outside my office window- two police cars lights flashing, sirens off black tarp, solid form still body-shaped, but still. Outside my office window- a big semi truck from the deconstruction site that […]
The moment is… a kiss and not a word, a what and not a why, is you without your story, unscripted. The moment is the drop of water you can taste on your tongue as you dive into the sea- you in the ocean, the ocean in you; is the chorus of a flash rainstorm […]
At the event when I couldn’t help but stand up and talk too much, I opened myself up to judgment in order to speak the burning necessity that was bubbling up my throat, determined to be shared. Taking my seat for the forth or fifth last time, a woman two rows back lifted her head and her […]
I climbed the mountain not to reach the top, but to cross over, marking each morning with a new little bracelet on my wrist, with colors of ascending frequency to note the mounting chakras, simulating an elevated state in the thinning air. I love me, I want to be me…. but not this way. […]
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