Humanity: Raw & Unfiltered
you spat me out at the very top of the tornado where sky meets dust just high it was blurry-dizzying, nauseating most mornings chewing-gum- pin-balling between being wrong and being wronger, I know I was never wrongest I slithered, spiraled down that treacherous hole, it felt like years and honestly Read more
I say I know Minnesota like the back of my hand. I don’t know the back of my hand. I wouldn’t recognize it on the street or if it slammed a door. 1 Not like I recognize the lines etched near my eyes, I saw them emerging at 20 and Read more
You want to be a part of me, your absence of color like spider’s silk growing, surrounded by a sea of dark strands, lonely. Patiently, you wait for me to find you, but my job, chores, phone calls, and the rest of routine that comes with family keep me distracted Read more
At night, after my day as a spice merchant concludes, the smell of garlic and onion dust coats my clothes and body like a new skin, as though I am someone different. I do not shower before visiting my parents, my scent melds with their age and confinement. My mother Read more
It was our 11th anniversary on the New Year of 2021. Our daughter woke up early but wanted to go and play so it was just us two in bed on a late Friday morning. I was on my phone when he fully woke up and he snuggled his back Read more
the beginning was lost so the ending will become the beginning the passion for breathing blends with tower tongues tattered candy wrappers next to the curb are all too common in an upside down kind of exploded, nuked world bloody lips licking global death fat chemicalized globules half broken slow Read more
