Aurora Award Nominated Author
Dear ___________, I’ve thought about what I wanted to say to you for a long time. The words have been gathering in my head, taking up too much room. It’s time for me to let them go. Just like you, I don’t need them… Continue Reading “To All The Men I Have Known – A Prose Poem”
I’m going through the photo album contained in my mind. I come across photos I’ve held onto, ones that show me from a past long ago. In the pictures, I look uncomfortable in the body that I’m expected to inhabit, one that came with… Continue Reading “Smoke Memories – A Poem”
I look back at the path that we have taken. I can see each dip and turn, every steep dive when there was a crisis that we had to overcome. At no point has our path split into two. We have always taken each… Continue Reading “Path of Stars, Sea of Magic – A Poem”
I’m sitting on a marble bench and the headset I’m wearing brings a voice into my head. Its tones are familiar, the timber of its words feeling like a caress. “If you turn to look at the canvas on your left, you’ll notice the… Continue Reading “Gallery of the Mind – A Poem”
It is my fathers voice I hear first as it’s the one I have known the longest: “Why are you so fucking stupid? Can’t you do anything right?” The sound of the voice has changed over time, taking on the tones of my ex-husband… Continue Reading “Voices I Let Go – A Poem”