Humanity: Raw & Unfiltered
Cast away into mystic mind oceans deep, enter serene cerulean blue subconscious soul. Sink into quicksand, remains of the Cultivator of Sleep Production. Slip away with the wind’s best friend. Soulless green plateau flatland rises, mountain guardians defend their holy mooneyes. Tactful window eyes view the other side, a melting Read more
It is New Year’s Eve so we dressed up to go out dancing, my best friend Mary and I, and headed out to some bar out in the country we’d never been to before, but we—M&M was how we were known (“we’re not plain, we’re nuts” we’d tell most everyone Read more
I give you the gasoline rainbow glistening next to the crumpled beer cans and soggy strips of newspaper. I give you diamond shards of broken bottles and the ruby ribbons of spilled Cabernet decorating the dirty gutter. I give you the tough greens growing between the concrete’s cracks and their Read more
She’s a shrinking silhouette. The cut-away dark around her burns. More work than sleep than fear than failing and finally (if lucky) the taste of iron and ceasefire. Give her a stone a stirrup a pocket of patches. How handy. How sweet. The drunkening cup touches her lip—too late to Read more
I befriended a witch who detests mankind. ‘Men are rarely kind,’ Joy says often, and when she does, I resist the urge to tell her that mankind is just another word for human beings. She loathes corrections, and I don’t want to feel her wrath again. ‘The human race is Read more
danced out of my mother’s womb naked cold cocooned in the afterbirth of art cord snip cut cries turned to screams soul activated why why why oh how, the harsh lights hurt this was the house I was assigned to difficult damn difficult the odd child with tangled hair pretty, Read more
I was in my friend Bracha’s backyard, celebrating the end of preschool by making tree-hangings out of scratched CDs (to scare away birds) while her mom listened to NPR from a portable radio. I heard an unfamiliar word and instantly asked her what it was, excited to add another to Read more
