Unburying My Tokens

Unburying My Tokens

by | Jun 11, 2016 | Poetry

I’d love to tell you all that has been going on, but the bottle is once again shaken, and the necessary bubbles are pushing the top off of my once again settled life. In the meantime, here are some words I wrote for a class about Transformative Language Arts: I...
Happy Mother’s Day – 2016

Happy Mother’s Day – 2016

by | May 8, 2016 | Poetry

From an A Word With You Press Contest Submission. It means so many things to me now. Gravitas by Tiffany Vakilian If By missing you I learn The tactile visage of love One that is first Then I am a student If by holding you for a few Too few Sickening short moments In...

On Flying Slowly

by | May 7, 2016 | Poetry

Out of the nest, into the air Hoping I don’t fall on my face With a weak leap of faith I am tired of jumping low Training wheels on my wings But it is so comfortable In the nest It is so easy It is so boring And so Here I...
Unafraid

Unafraid

by | Mar 19, 2016 | Poetry

I has been almost a year since so many things. It has been over a year since so many others. Time. Making love is a science that laymen practice with broken tools. But it is the brokenness that makes the beauty. Tricky little fishes. You are honoring no one when you...
Consider the Dragonfly

Consider the Dragonfly

by | Jan 1, 2016 | Poetry

Happy New Year!  In lieu of a Saturday Post, here is a New Years promise, kept and keeping. You rarely hear dragonflies Coming or going Resting or moving Not unless they are very close Intimately close Their song Scary as the portents of a new year a new choice a new...