Normal might be a limiting line that hedges us into tight corners and right angles. For my grandma and my mom, cutting quilt blocks is everyday straight life but my normal recognizes the circle of quilting is outside my power of comfort. My patterned mandala…

What is normal? Conforming to the usual. What is “usual”? Who determines the “usual”? Why do they get to say what is “usual”? If I say what is normal, how can anyone say I am abnormal? Normal is subjective. It is compliance to a standard….

Normal ‘Normal is’, we laugh, shake our heads, A vague pop culture reference we both enjoy. There’s no such thing, we agree, As you tell me again, how you Have never been normal and I nod, Knowing I wouldn’t have you any other way. As…

It was my own hubris. I preferred to be alone, introverted, awkward, But it’s a pitfall. A year, two years? Its hard to keep count when every day feels the same. When I reminisce, will I remember my prior self? The self that was empty…

Here we are standing on two sides of the same dirt road. Gonna take a day to wash off all the grit I get when I see you. How did this become my daily dread? I fear I’ll never know what it means to live…

(Image text) To write straight across the page is considered Normal. But have you considered the appeal of starting your text ticked cozy in the corner of a cream colored page, growing with every breath, willing to wander as you wish,  with only the confines…

Worlds within bubbles No words to speak No exchange of ideas Or liquids we leak Echo chambers Of fear Losing our grip Needing increasing pain To form a tear Blame all around And no one in charge Only thing in the city Is an enemy…

Normal \ˈnȯr-məl\ adjective the way i should have responded when you left. you said it so fast, i wasn’t sure i heard correctly. i should have fought for you. asked you what i did wrong. after all, isn’t that what society tells women to do?…

~ Using the text prompt ~ Styled as an Acrostic. N ot O mnipresent; R eality M ay A lternate L argely due to privilege(s) ”not omnipresent – reality may alternate; largely due to privileges”. Quotes: 1. “Normal is an illusion. What’s normal for the…

Will you promise me, that you will love me, unconditionally, that your love will not abstain, as how the full moon does wane?   Will you promise me that as I age and become less of a beauty, that you would still love me beyond…