Poetry
Saturday Afternoon Poetry
bare skin glides against my rough edges like warm sand you buff my contours smooth mouth tracing the trail of my vertebrae you become cartographer of my ridges and valleys before breathing electricity along my spine bold fingertips find the places I ache work me like clay patiently loosen the knots I have tied myself into until … Continue reading Saturday Afternoon Poetry
True Colors – Christine E. Ray
I colored carefully inside the thick black lines of every coloring book ever handed to me my Crayolas never straying across socially imposed boundaries about who I could love who I could be I turned 16 chafed with the need for freedom to color the sky in shades of lavender the grass hot pink my … Continue reading True Colors – Christine E. Ray
Flags – Christine E. Ray
I toss and turn images etched onto my corneas of your torches your flags symbols of hate it is the confidence pride with which you carry these symbols that haunts me no need to hide your identity in this New America led by a madman who values nothing but himself content to let this country … Continue reading Flags – Christine E. Ray
Poetry Fragment: Warning Label
Testify! – A Collaboration
Originally published on Blood Into Ink Elephants in the arena, drowning out the stories as we all hear them, stomping on the flowerbed scenery they’ve built around your garden of rot, and without a second thought, sold the world a wilting centerpiece (Nicholas Gagnier) I And His Daughter Prayed for Her She didn’t really know … Continue reading Testify! – A Collaboration
Brave & Reckless 