words sit thick in my mouth a peanut butter and regret sandwich that i can neither swallow nor expel onto the empty plate a stasis of stale bread and denial i am trapped muffled mute unable (or is it unwilling?) to scrape truth from my tender tongue © 2021 Christine Elizabeth Ray – All Rights … Continue reading stifled
My response to this week's Go Dog Go Cafe's writing prompt. My mother hovers above the 55 miles per hour speed limit, cigarette casually in hand. Her ever-present open bag of spice drops on the dashboard melts lazily in the afternoon sun. It doesn’t matter. Despite the variety of jewel tones contained in the bag, … Continue reading Dangerous Thoughts
Written in 2014, Originally published on Brave and Reckless on December 6, 2017 I have been thinking a great deal this holiday season about my first year of social work school. As incoming students, we were asked to fill out a skill and interest form to help match us with our year-long field placement. I … Continue reading The Gift of Empathy
speak to me of summers past when cool, damp grass reached for bare feet with long grasping fingers as we ran through the night quicksilver chasing fireflies through an indigo sky living completely in the moment us on the cusp of adulthood you innocently offering cupped hands to hold moonlight for me the radiance you … Continue reading We Danced with Fireflies
We never talked about the monster inside me. Crouched on the bed, cold white skin, dark pupils dilated like dinner plates, your bodily fluids fragrant on my tongue, feral and remote, licking my own blood off my fingers. Repulsive and enticing in equal turns. Never knowing if I would fade into the night for days … Continue reading Feline
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