the last milehow to guard this great buoyant secret swelling within my belly threatening to burst with every word i speak? i’ve been silent for so...
meanwhilei realized, to my dismay, that what i felt was a tremendous sense of unbelonging. alienated from this life i’d so carefully curated....
cannibalismthe way you insisted on feeding me to myself over and over — hovering precariously your eyes boring into mine as if posing a challenge...
talismanmaybe if i give my fear a home roll out the red carpet feed it double boiled soup make its bed rain feathers gift it with my secrets it...
how about you show yourself some grace?and what of the days that are filled with impossible greyness? when every movement is governed by flaring pain that lingers uninvited?...
i write myself into resiliencewhat happened then i can understand now. from a distance of several years, able to see the full curve of my life. the universe was...