You Don’t Get Soft Love From Me

You Don’t Get Soft Love From Me

by | Mar 21, 2020 | Poetry

You don’t get soft love from me It was burned on the stone of harsh words And painful abandoned moments Scorched earth Salted ground You don’t get soft love from me It doesn’t mean it isn’t love It is in the foxhole In the midst of your fires...
Post-crash Burning (From February 2015)

Post-crash Burning (From February 2015)

by | Jan 25, 2020 | Poetry

Can’t Or Shouldn’t Keep or share this chapter Ashes can draw the fiery wings Dampened Or More perhaps Bread with faulty yeast Supposed to be rising But it isn’t as fast as it “should” be Release Or Forgive the self For things outside of...
Untitled 8/17/19

Untitled 8/17/19

by | Aug 17, 2019 | Poetry

I want to give you a word prompt one that will set your spirit on fire and yet I feel like you ain’t gonna listen anyway so why bother you wanna talk about inclusion about the joys of freedom? but you turn truth into shame and shame those that don’t walk...
Blue is for Boy

Blue is for Boy

by | Jan 26, 2019 | Poetry

I have been dreaming About my little one I have been seeing him All over And nowhere But I hear him sigh “yet.” It sounds like wind A promise on the season Not yet come Already here Not even conceived But already believed I hear him sigh “yet.”...
Joy Recapturing

Joy Recapturing

by | Jan 5, 2019 | Poetry

I have found lately, my joy in hiding My strength depleting But God I have found my nights anarchic And slumber fleeting But God Let up not one bit As I quietly sit questioning all of it “But God…” I want to find my joy and dance And run my miles...