I felt the words bubbling and boilingseething and stewingsimmering under my skin like a witches brewwords like self-pity, anger, discontentment-They burned all those around me,and they burned me tooeating me away, piece by pieceflickering and flaring,the flames that I thought were keeping me aliveinstead licking back and choking the life out of meI was puffed …
Summer 2020 Reading List.
It’s weird to be writing this post, a post that seemed so far away as I opened my first book of the Summer and envisioned writing about it later on. And yet here we are! August has passed. The nights are growing colder. The sun is setting faster. Summer has come to a close. During …
While we’re in the storm.
The coronavirus pandemic, the November election, mask mandates, school closures, nation-wide protests, de-funding the police…. It seems like we barely get our heads above water amid the storms of 2020 and then another wave hits. I have watched as so many struggle against these waves, cursing at them and doing everything in their power to …
{like butterflies}
all i want is to writeas i balance accounts at workas i brush my teeth at nightas i lay my head down to sleep as i run in the morning light the words buzz around mewherever i golouder and louder until i can’t hear anything elsethey float around meuntil i can’t see anything else. clouding …