He Just Dropped Two Tabs of Acid
“It feels like you’re inside my body,”
he whispered and squeezed tighter and
tried to meld two into one
like lonesome clumps of wet clay.
Suicide, American Women and Privilege Bias: A Toxic Cocktail of Shame
The suicide rate is up 63% for women aged 45-65 and up 200% for girls aged 10-14. A worrying statistic but for some reason, this statistic and the damage privilege bias is causing to vulnerable women and girls is often ignored.
A Feminist Literary Canon
It no longer seems so farfetched that a central document of Western humanity, the Torah or Old Testament should have been led by a woman’s prose, for she is the author of Genesis and such was her genius to describe without hesitancy or fear, Creation itself.
The Jacket
The ruthless cold shakes my being,
flooding me with memories,
reminding me of the days I walked naked,
freezing to death by my consuming pain.
Dreaming of an Independence Day for Her
her liberty
to love herself
her liberty
to have a choice when it comes to her body
her liberty
to age
You. There. Now.
They pause long enough to kiss under a tree whose limbs are bursting with grandchildren.
Five Fatimas Five
A decade a coke
Whore
A year pathetic
Hermit
Home is Where The Heart Lives
Home is where the heart lives and breezes through you.