If i’m not careful, I split in half. My mind floats away from my body. A ghost and a zombie. The ghost haunts the people I love and the people I hate. It watches their highlight reels and collects resentments. It tries to possess other bodies. The zombie is simpler; it consumes anything within sight. […]
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I’m sitting on the cold sand, by a small beach house in OctoberThe waves and the rain are pattering, speaking to meMom gets as excited about the ocean as I doI cant tell where the horizon is, the water blends in with the sky The ocean is one thing that fully consumes my mindLeaves no
I am proud to be a member of the Global Sisterhood. To find sisters everywhere I go. To find my heart’s cry in other eyes. My suffering in other bodies. I was in Edinburgh alone for a day. I took a tour of the Edinburgh castle in the morning. There were two other solo women.
Waves of sunlight crash over meI feel held and freeMy cells eat it up as breakfastSprinklers water flowers behind meI catch a drop here and there I realized yesterday that i grade my own testsI realized this morning that my inner storms are my powerRaw unfiltered unhinged world bending powerI am every magical heroine and
My body rejects youLove is a foreign food You give me flowersAnd it blocks me up, I can’t eatButterflies and stomach bugs sitting together inside meThese are new flavorsmy gut bacteria is not equipped for You say you miss me, I’m in your headAnd I’m up all night with the bucketBegging for reliefI don’t know
It’s 8:45 on a Sunday in Lake George. I’m not hungry but if you want breakfast you’re forced to get it between 7 and 9. So I begrudgingly go down to the Lakeview dining room. The lake view does not disappoint. The water is a canvas for the sky and the rich Autumn landscape of
A long relationship has just ended. I say ‘just’ although it was almost 6 months ago, because my heart still insists it happened yesterday. Everyone knows the word breakup does no justice to the experience.A more accurate word is Apocalypse. It’s a departing of two souls from a world years in the building, as this
Block by block I built a castle in my mindI thought you put blueprints in the sky but really it was just starsA dot-by-dot I filled in too soonI had a picture for my life and it overlaid yours and took the shape of himI didn’t know the galaxy was expanding more stars were coming
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