Tag: love
The Affair
I sit in a chair, near the window. The light shines in on me, but I don’t feel its warmth. I look around, silence is everywhere. I am left alone in a big empty house. You tell me to smile, but how can I smile? Can’t you see that I’m Read more
Remembering Ziggy with a Cremation Diamond
So we’ve reached January. Usually the most depressing month of the year. With the year we’ve just had it’s hard to imagine anything more depressing coming at us. Oh … wait … January the 20th got ya. This is the month where we try to make good on our New Read more
And I Love Her
a brave new year dawns amidst a clown led misogynistic circus and there are words that need to be spoken so let me not mumble or remain silent in the presence of my enemies let me vociferously speak philogynist I am ready to stand beside her in my white male Read more
Presence in Absence
You are an omnipresent cold embrace, that keeps me shivering through the empty nights. You are the dawn of day and the moon, that blinds me and keeps me awake. You are a ceaseless string of memories in my lucid dreams; and the jolt of somnambulism. You are a sinking Read more
On Chapin Street
We sat bare assed and wetting our hunger condensing. In a cloud of Jack Daniels you dealt a final round. Drawing each card slowly from the deck, fingers placed like a gentle lover between the folds of the cut. Lifting each card into the growing fan of your hand, you Read more
Transcendent Growth Exchange
Five years ago, I arranged a meeting with twenty family members. I was to announce that I would begin to present to the world as a woman. As soon as everyone saw me in person and realized that I was really going to transition my gender and begin living as Read more
If this Temporary Life
if this temporary life I call my own requires a realization that it could end at any moment if it means nothing more than a breaking of the circular hate and searing dysfunction I was born into if it means helping my fellow human beings who are oppressed become free Read more