Alternate

Alternate

by | Jul 25, 2020 | Poetry

perception reality highbrow banality look around make sure your perception can learn critical thought questioning life open up the comfortable lies We are not dumb, and we are not blind. What we are is soft. We don’t want to move from our comfort zones. Our...
Hurts

Hurts

by | Jul 18, 2020 | Poetry

I hurt inside my body as I heal from my fourth cut preparing and birthing my son my daughter my son I hurt inside my heart trying to understand the world I want to teach my children to navigate like a substrate feeding on confusion and hate I hurt alone in this muddy,...
Context

Context

by | Jul 5, 2020 | Poetry

Muddy and surrounded by mixing sounds and confusion everyone shushing one another no context for where we are It’s not a worthless time it dances about conundrums beating dreams like drums and the children scream for milk for comfort for context I wish I could...
This Free – a Reminder

This Free – a Reminder

by | Jun 26, 2020 | Poetry

For years they told me I was free But free don’t look like free to me Marry who I want But don’t want to be Suddenly I’ma traitor But I thought I was free? Then I hear myself: All of my days are paid for Paid for in the best possible way I own and...
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...