emotional health – Page 26 – FEMININE COLLECTIVE

Speedball

April 21, 2017September 15, 2018 Julie Anderson

magic tricks glisten with tears wishing on faraway dreams dancing with angels of reality singing songs of redemption for only the deaf to hear blind because of the truth there is no such wisdom in this realm of impossibility salvation comes in secret slices whispers, slate grey tinged with frost Read more

Fun Facts

April 18, 2017September 18, 2018 Raegan Gonzalez

Did you know that a mantis shrimp has 12 different types of photoreceptors in their eyes Meaning they can see colors That don’t meet the human eye I say we take the spectrum for granted As if the rainbow is black and white Going through everyday misinterpreting The gift of Read more

After Death of Birth

April 18, 2017September 18, 2018 Kundai Muringi

I found my death when I gave a life, but life played a trick on me. She brought back my ghost to live in a body that talks and thinks, of skeletons that breathe; a body that can not make sense of what I say, then collapses in the exhaustion, Read more

Bitches Brew

April 7, 2017September 14, 2018 Julie Anderson

Her mind is confused. Her thoughts bubble up from unconscious literature, written in dreams. Her ideals, a compilation of conflicting truths. Her heart pumps red, squeezing drops through the constricting black membrane of rage. She drinks from the well of insanity, smiling to hide the riddle inside. She remembers, a movie Read more

HELL-O

April 4, 2017April 15, 2017 Ericka Arthur

Drawn to the scorching And then your Spring showers From choppy singed waters To smooth sailing From Summer tornadoes To dry Autumn winds Enveloping Winter Underlying our laying Our S’mores Our invisible foundation Shook Volcano erupting You appear to take pleasure In having burned me Heart melted Now decaying Read more

Loneliness

March 28, 2017April 15, 2017 Natasha Alexander

There are different sides to loneliness. Like a lover, with two faces. Sometimes it creeps up while you driving in a silent car. Other times you feel it when you walk through a park, Noises everywhere around you, but none of them belong to you. A lot of times loneliness Read more

A Widow’s Gift to Me

March 24, 2017September 14, 2018 Jacqueline Jules

In October of 1988, a neighbor of mine lost her husband in a freak car accident. I first heard the news in a conversation with my son’s teacher. “Did you hear about that accident the Friday night before Halloween? The most bizarre thing—a deer hit the car and went right Read more

The Widow

March 16, 2017September 13, 2018 Victoria Addesso

Every early morning she leashes her old dog, walks down to and through the forest to the lake. She looks younger than her fifty-six years, although she feels older, or rather, as if she has lived far too long already. Her dog, an Aussie boy, a handsome black tri-color, walks Read more