This was the toughest week I've had in a while--but I'm still alive, I'm still here and I am resilient AF. I want to talk smack about all...

Freedom comes with keys in hand to unbound every lock With wings she flies and clips the ties that bind Loose! Loose! With open arms she...

One day the weeping will cease and your body, so tired from heaving sobs, will release itself and rest will finally come to your bones...

today i brushed a girl’s headful of knotted hair her pigtails were askew did daddy do your hair this morning or did you i asked (because...

Be Practical and her sister Be Realistic welcome the dousing of rain because it waters the plants, feeds the rivers and the birds need it...

heaven is filled with laughter dripping down from the eaves. it will greet me with wide margins, and endless fields of tall grasses...

I have a jelly jar of memories, with a metal lid. I poked holes in it so the memories can breathe, but not get out. It would make a good...

I am a weed woody, gangly, no lipstick, no shine. But I know how to grow through cement. I know how to take a sliver of filtered sunlight...

ebony birds threading the fading horizon a hem to heaven weaving a passage for the wanderer, the saint, the sinner i find my way home....

One day you will run out of sidewalk And you don’t be able to run away from yourself anymore. You’ll sit on the pavement, Burning a hole...

i captured a sliver of the moon on the tip of my tongue a tiny thousand fireflies, between steamy puffs of burning lungs, a shimmering. i...

My mother lived in the waters here, Chocolate brown as she could be On the edge of Public's Beach She grew up in a caretaker's cottage,...

17,807 days how many times is too many times to begin again? who is the accountant keeping track of my failures? is there really a tally...

I sat and listened to the hum of the fans this morning. Fat raindrops like a can of marbles, splattering off the eaves of this old house....