Humanity: Raw & Unfiltered
Isn’t it always and hasn’t it always been a voice answering a voice? The voice outside with its multiple morning voices of bluebird and robin and finch, the evening canticles of owls, the polyrhythms of crickets, the drone of the tanpura wind in the tops of distant trees like a Read more
She comes to me in dreams fluid, morphing, alive, made real. Here, swimming in lost consciousness, I can caress her face tell her I love her without falter – no stumbling blocks exist, only accessible inked rivers, free-flowing, boundless… This inky swirled land is our playground and her calligraphy a Read more
We fight ourselves off every day The temptations for self hatred Gather ‘round for sentencing at the Crown Court We go into battle eyes to God, hand to Chest Young boys drum For the new citizenry Stopped in tracks by musket balls Worse bayonets Worse hand to hand combat with Read more
Sleep calls to me, and so does my son. In a minute. The cup of water and belly — full. Teeth — flossed and brushed. Potty — twice for good measure. Sharky and Moose — each one stuffed under the arm. Star Wars fleece — just over the knees. Stories Read more
Sometimes when I lay awake on a hot summer night listening to the chorus of crickets outside my bedroom window in the hazy gauze of the southern town I landed in somehow like an arrow in the garden or a bow upon a gift, hidden, waiting I remember When the Read more
Before the rising, there was excruciating silence. A million deaths beneath the skin—unnamed, insistent. Felt keenly, ignored. Then came the cracking—full, unrelenting—no gentle undoing. Only the collapse of all self-abandonment once held together. She watched, relegated to the back seat as mind and soul retreated from the noise. Choosing solitude Read more
These are the best days of my life, while I long for sleep and my daughter eats only scrambled eggs for two weeks straight. I was so young when the economy crashed I had nothing to lose, and still, I had everything. Have you ever cried it out? I have Read more
