It’s just not an easy word It makes my skin crawl everytime I hear it Makes me cry because I know You’re not coming back I’ve gotten close to so many Some are still here some gone and some are in transition What a miserable…

Life has a way of over baking. Without warning the timer has gone off and you still putz along not knowing that everything is crisping at the edges. Good thing your soul is full of pink sunrises, bird song, and meaningful prayers filling in small…

Ingredients, you will need: 1x Global Pandemic 2x parents who’ve just got used to having the house to themselves 1x son who can’t stand having to leave the delights of the city for his parents house in the countryside 1x son with pretensions of being…

A Recipe for Ripened Intellect, Submission #2, Ann WJ White Life is a stream of books, stacked in piles to peruse. Grated science fiction, mixed with forked dramas, particle physics discovered in 420BC, for added flavor. History, biographies, romance and other non-fiction, Twisted about, squeezed….

He has a mind that I would love to unfold Eyes that make me want to get lost in his psyche He has a sense of subtlety… …a intriguing mystery If only I could tell him that his aura sparks something inside of me I…

You’ll need to make sure all your ingredients are at the ready You’ll need 1 healthy dose of anger (fresh, not packaged due to limited shelf life) 1 jar of openness (open and let breathe) Unlimited supply of WTFs (fresh, as opposed to pre-packaged no…

Black love. I will not understand your pain Until you feel my rage in its entirety. I will not empathize with every death that leaves me just a little more dead Like starting with numbness—fingers with needles in the tips Like a blackened lung that…

My childhood tasted like favoritism, fresh, hot-off-the-grill patriarchy seasoned, guiltless bites of “don’t talk so loud, don’t have that opinion, don’t show that much skin.” Devouring a life long diet of “stop crying” and “no one will love you if you eat like that.” Partially…

Recipe ingredients   Distance  Time  Complacency  Inertia  Frustration    Ingredient 1. Is mixed in with everything else,   Ingredient 2 seasons.  3 and 4 are tossed into the recipe, both compliment each other perfectly  But it is 5 that gives it its punch     Method…

Stay beautiful because you are. Life is worth living with you in it. I close my eyes I hug you in my dreams, kiss you in my wishes. I’m with you in every step, every inhale and exhale of breath. Tomorrow is always brighter because…