We keep talking about this and I understand where you’re coming from, but sometimes there’s something to be said for nostalgia simply for Nostalgia’s sake – it’s been way too long since we’ve had a 2am phone call, since the tweety bird lighter got magically…

You have always had this way about you of being perfect and incredible and record breaking in your own right but never lasted longer than a few minutes especially if there was rain on the horizon.   Paper airplane wishes – the prize flower –…

Remember when we would go to the nursing home and glue puzzles together and trade books worn out and weighed down with the annotations of literal generations – we painted sunflowers and lilies for each room with a little old lady lacking family or support. We…

Texas SB 14 in Dada per Tristan Tzara’s “To Make a Dadaist Poem”, 1920 Induce or; Profiles not for health ordinary practice determined or code is age read; Safety the not (2) (4). Or procedures. By subchapter: (b) child’s or the public an to transitioning…

CW: misgendering (mention); parental estrangement Getting What You Want Isn’t Always Getting What You Want It’s funny how putting 2,218 miles between me and her and her words and their ability to nag at at my will to exist Doesn’t actually put space between me…

Yes a storm is brewing – yeah there’s already one knocking on the doors and wrapping on the window panes –   I’m sure you’ve heard the warnings but in every Pandora’s box was all about hope not the monsters and I’d like to think…

I grew up in a house where art and laughter were rationed and metered out and never supposed to be shared together. Art was a privilege and laughter was a reward of the highest order. Growing up paint splattered was never a lesson I  thought…

I had a bunch of tech issues this morning so I wrote a bunch of connected haikus while waiting for the router to reset WIFI, why must you foresee me like this in the time I needed you most? Laptop, why is now the moment…

The boy who gave me cloth oragami hearts and engraved sheet music and silk black roses didn’t last though he put in all the right moves. He was here for the lesson that you should really appreciate what you’ve got while you have it.  …

By the time you reach the last page here what do you want to remember and who do you want to be because that’s the beauty of the Hummingbird Lounge – no one ever stays the same after a visit here. You are never alone…