Twelve next month, that preteen brink. I have a new step-daddy, a new baby sister too! Momma is so happy, I think-                   with everyone but you.   Says I must deserve the welt from the tops…

maxwell only together   a few weeks found fluffball   treeblown stormshaken   unable to fly fed you mince  so you grew cheeky & raucous   clutched my finger   sat  on my shoulder beaktangled  my hair till the devastating day i didn’t shut  …

You are not invisible, though you walk in the shadows of this world. You are not alone, though you journey on your own. The heaviness in your heart is a fettered weight, anchored to the sorrows of the past and the unknowns of the future….