Humanity: Raw & Unfiltered
Don’t hold my hand. Never hug me, kiss me or tell me that you love me. Always say things that stab my heart. That is the way it should be. What you feel is more important than my thoughts, so please continue to speak over me. Every mistake I have Read more
What if my anxiety is making my pulse jump and he puts the needles in the wrong place? What if I’m failing acupuncture? Is that even possible? Just when I think I can’t take it anymore, he releases my wrist. I think I audibly sigh, but I wiggle my shoulders in what looks like a relaxing motion, so he thinks I’m just settling in. Then, he moves around the table and repeats the whole process on my left side.
I grew up as a musical theater nerd—a performance artist. I doodled in my assignment notebooks, but I would never dream of taking an art class. That just wasn’t what I did. At 18 years old, I knew who I was. I was a theater girl. But sometimes, life has Read more
Kleptomania (klep-toe-MAY-nee-uh) The recurrent failure to resist urges to steal items that you don’t really need and that usually have little value. ~Mayo Clinic The tiny in valuables are what she was drawn to the most. Shiny, pretty things. Sometimes a set of miniature salt and pepper shakers abandoned on a Read more
Elaina didn’t cry not until she was alone behind walls. Elaina didn’t cry not until she knew she was going away. Too much in a bottle like hurricane bubbling inside closed glass. Brittle pieces cut hard droplets of blood through skin. Never mind. Kettle burning she takes a mitten boils Read more
Once upon a time, there was Moscow, and she was big, and she was red and she was covered tight, all locked up in her high tower. But she grew tired of this and she blew the tower up and let her hair down, and now everyone drives a BMW. Read more
To My Son, You came into our lives that January day, all wrinkled and full of hope. You smiled, laughed and took in your world. Sight by sight, memory by memory. You went from crawling one week to walking the next. You learned, grew and thrived. You were full of Read more
Moan you in,
push you out
of my confidence.
Feel you swell
under my imagination;
you are unreal,
my perfect creation.