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, […]
To Donald, From Eddie
Here’s a letter from my dog, Eddie, to Donald Trump. Donald, For the love of our country, please STOP the TWITTER nonsense! Please, just stop. Tie your thumbs to your fingers if you must. Practice some restraint (like I do when I want to bark all night long at nothing but the wind). You are not the […]
I Found A Letter From A Lady by Kim Valzania
I went out looking for myself, and this is what I found A heaping, hot mess of abuse, not entirely unsound Some given, some received Some conjured, some perceived Copious judgment, hoarded stores of pain Senseless actions and wounding words – Seeping, weeping, insecurity remained Compulsion, revulsion, Binge and expulsion Five bloody knives from flesh cut […]