“There are two kinds of suffering. There is the suffering you run away from, which follows you everywhere. And there is the suffering you face directly, and in doing so become free.” ~ Ajahn Chah For me, rock bottom happened quietly. If you have ever watched the fluff from a shedding Cottonwood tree—a fuzzy, white, wispy thing […]
She Wishes For Things
She wishes for things like candy and youth, for the dog to stop barking, and her body, the way it felt when she was almost 20, she runs her hands down, along her thighs, and she remembers, and she wishes for her eyes to shine brighter, to light up the world, the way they used to, […]
Food; A Poem
My choice, my rebellion, my freedom, my shelter, my crazy, inconsistent lover, my therapy, my treatment, my family, my mother, my comfort, my pillow, my blanket, helped me cope, cope without hope, it’s how I did it, my drug, my dope stuffing it down, my addiction, my vice, my master, my boss and my captor me, […]