I often say I hate winter my circulation sucks, I’m always cold I’ve never had enough warm clothes or warm enough clothes maybe or maybe just warm enough thoughts because in winter everything dies colors leave everyone preaches – but – 2022 was a fucking onslaught. – I don’t think I hate winter the days […]
it’s pouring this year I mean today I mean this year as it goes sometimes last year everything dried up everyone everywhere was parched this year, it all flooded back in and then some we may grumble have to change our clothes and our lives but I don’t mind all this weathering with you let’s […]
I am over sleeping it takes too much of my morning I want my time back the birds and the alarm beckon me to awaken I feel the urge to rise but I snooze the call again and again for years I had insufficient time for sleep at that point my life value was centered […]
when I fell in love with the mask it had been worn so long the wearer didn’t know it was there either I made many mistakes and overlooked the peeling at the edges her only mistake was underestimation she grew to understand a self beneath the mask but wouldn’t tell me outright hoping I would […]
for the longest time I conflated success with fulfillment and I defined both with other people’s words (despite what else I could hear) it has taken gargantuan effort to pivot into something better, someone brave but after the tower finished burning and I evacuated into the woods I am whole (which is better than perfect) being […]
I placed my dreams in the stars Knowing I can walk only the earth I’ll climb forever Resting intermittently on cliffsides Dangling by ropes and cords -like any other comfort zone- Always ready to reach again
08.22.2015 – I dreaded facing this date for months. what I used to think was going to happen I do not recognize the girl in that January photograph – physically, emotionally, or otherwise. The end of the relationship was the end of her too. I don’t mean this as hyperbole. Nothing causes you to peel off […]
To the Well-Meaning Meddler, I must object to your recent attempt at intervention. There is a difference between busted and lost. I am not “repairing” myself. If anything, I’m upgrading. Truthfully, I’m still figuring it out; but I do know that it’s not a restoration project. So you can stop waiting. Just because I am […]
quill takes flight 