Mothers, like elephants, remember. We remember the day we found out you were coming, the day we found out we were indeed growing a whole human being inside. We made you from scratch; you came from a speck. Some of us were scared. Some of us were surprised; not ready. Some of us were overjoyed; […]
Dear Daughter. Live Your Life.
Dear Daughter, As you navigate the choppy waters of womanhood (and damn, those are some high, white-capped swells), please, oh please, hear my voice, my love. Hear it, sweet child. Please don’t shrug me off. Hear it ringing through the din, right through these confounding, life-sorting years; right past your indifference, your boredom with me, […]
Love Is, We Are {Poetry}
Love is we are 15, and we are fragile, our egos, our bodies, still growing, stirred by life, and desire, and the moisture of lust, and we seek attention, and make foolish decisions, and have unrequited feelings, that never reach closure, or fruition, and we are in our heads, a cloudy fantasy, of bleachers, and […]
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