(for hour 7—“normal” prompt)   That’s Not Normal   I woke him with the dreaded whisper, “There’s someone in the livingroom.” Having no reason to doubt me, he leapt from dream-state to Dominant Male Protector inside of a second. Then I whispered, to warn him,…

The new normal wants so badly to be the old normal tries so hard to be carefree. Maskless is the new breezy. Everybody wants to be the new Marlo Thomas smilingly skipping across a busy New York street tossing her hat into the air not…

I remember The last breath of unfiltered air On a cool evening I stopped and raised my hands in the air And filled my lungs as much as I could   I remember Trying to hold that breath Because words cannot explain How pure and…

What if What if What if I was Normal? Well We know We know We know I’m not Normal. No one normal asks What if they were Normal? Because They are They are They are boring. Normal people let the world shape them But What…

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…

There’s no place like home With a coffin of glass In a magical forest Where they grieve as they pass For knowledge is poison And love was a lie There’s no kiss to wake her Just tears left to cry For each life she touched…

i am haunted by humans*; follow a trail of laughter not my own on my way back from work, eyes smiling with the memory of the way she stole my planner and wrote ‘my birthday! ;)’ on every wednesday except for the one in the…

  The Gift of Time   Here’s this…oddly familiar cash box, the sort you use for a yard sale or craft show, I’ve just dug out of the ground where the roses are strangled. To say the previous homeowner had a green thumb would be…

Driving the highway pay my respects to squinched raccoon squirrel flattened like bearskin rug ‘Roadkill’ is what people call these roadway unfortunates but I think that misses so many marks For it wasn’t the road that killed them but the innate urge we all share…