Sister Outsider how many times have my hazel eyes bought me the luxury of blindness? how many times has the skin I walk in this
Category: Poetry
This Is What Love Looks Like
Originally posted on derrickjknight:
‘At its heart, this collection of writing is all about love, which we believe all readers can relate to and appreciate.…
Apocalypse
the world burns wild chaotic flames licking at my heels melts amber encasing me drop by precious drop preferred armor for fragile sanity beginning to
Monday’s Coming and We’re not Okay
Originally posted on Hephaestus’ Waste & Cosmic Rubble:
Photo by Mathew MacQuarrie on Unsplash Monday’s Coming and We’re not Okay Imagine a worldwhere property value,tax-paid infrastructure,the rule of…
Submersion
waters rose ‘round me so gradually so soothingly I barely noticed when gentle lapping against bare toes became insistent nudging of knees hips shoulders with
The Cubic Weight of Sadness
sadness covered her a blanket of thick wet snow yardstick-deep melancholy weighed her to the ground masked her eyes filled her nose her mouth deadening
The Anger Within
strong emotion was not viewed favorably in my childhood home I was declared too loud too bold too opinionated too me told not to be
Remember?
do you lie awake at night remembering my cheeks awash in frustrated tears at my ridiculous longing for you and me together? your hand impossibly
Shame
I have been dancing with shame today it is not clear which of us is leading the dance a tango both of us struggling for
