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Every Woman You Have Ever Been. {poetry}

October 12, 2017

I have a healthy and almost daily habit of journaling. It is my first place to go for comfort and release, where I use words to express myself, to offload and discover hidden aspects of my internal world. I started journaling as a part of a self-care plan I put together, but it has ...

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When Saturn Killed Pluto: Today I Approached Myself Cautiously. {poetry}

October 10, 2017

And it was good but kinda weird A little lonely To be without her in the world So today I thought maybe I would talk to her again

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Layers. {spoken word poetry}

October 9, 2017

It is not a part of you that was there when you felt love as a newborn, before your dreams were torn by stranger’s scorn. Layers -- they are not a part of you.

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The Other Side. {poetry}

October 5, 2017

White Men play a hellish game mutually indebted in shame With the shit they get on each other they build walls of silence

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Here We Remember: The Song of Myself. {poetry}

October 3, 2017

I feared the song of myself like the touch of a snake, and it was the slipping out of one skin into another, first raw, then the smoothness of new skin.

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Swim Me Home. {poetry}

September 28, 2017

I kissed you before I kissed you. In how I hated waiting. When I went home that night and played through all other possible scenarios in my head.

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This Breath. {poetry}

September 26, 2017

And this breath No matter how thin or shaken Will continue to swell With every inhalation Another sound Another word to be spoken To reach out

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It’s How It Had to Be: Recollections from a Dream. {poetry}

September 21, 2017

Where do dreams come from? At one point, I thought I could distinguish between the dreams of the subconscious and the dreams that come from a place entirely different — perhaps the place we inhabit before we are born into this world? I thought I could tell the difference between ...