F2020…Maybe, Maybe Not

It’s 5:00 a.m. on a Saturday morning, and I am wide awake. I had a nightmare that I was young and broke, with messy hair, and a poor ability to resolve issues. This nightmare doesn’t mean much to you, but I understand its undercurrent - I felt I had no control of my life in [...]

3:00 p.m. On A Monday In October

The clock of our life, Measuring each moment, Our grandest hours ring out, Then fade into the next. This is how it always starts, A pulse outside of my own, Whose breeze, Echoes me backward, My skin thrumming with, Memory, I feel alive and forgotten, Touch mixed with scent,  Laced with sound, I am bound, [...]

Adam and Eve

Somewhere out there, We are, Breathing in the same air, Dreaming under the same moon, Tide pools of humanity, We wade them together, And stand in our nakedness, Beautiful, alive, art of flesh, Carved in passion’s glow, To live and breathe free, We yearn together, Come, take my hand, Your skin is as to me [...]

Life, Liberty and Love

Being wrapped in your wine, Tumbling around me, A river of song and expectation, Hope that this is that moment, Elusive, connection and joy, Magnetized and drawn in, honey, Only to determine at the last, That we are both fallibly human, Lyrical poems in an ecstatic moment, Always it was the eyes that drew me [...]

Felicity

It’s amazing how you can miss The soft fur of a muzzle The way a cowlick swirled Right in the middle Fragglely little ears and tail Bouncing up and down Bright eyes looking up Adoringly or imploringly Wolfish grin that seemed In on the joke Raggely-taggely lil pup Always up for an adventure! Head dog, [...]

Why We Need Heroes Who Look Like Us

My grandmother had found a china doll for me one Christmas when I was little. She was excited to send it, and I was excited to receive it. I was happy to get a new, pretty doll. For my grandmother, she was excited to find a doll that looked like me. Born in a small [...]