Paper Cranes

  Verse I: There they go again dust settles in, starts to fade like sighing blown away & fallen to the floor A thin disguise you try to hide, you’re walking slowly dying hollow as the day when you were born Verse II: Close your eyes and then take a deep breath in, you’re standing … [Read more…]

New Strategies for Invisibility

Invisible Guarded, distant, aloof – The Highlander. Tuck Everlasting. Immortal. Angels. Translucent, transparent, gauze, gossimer, shimmery, whisper, questral, fleeting touches then it’s gone. Ghostly, spectral. A chill passing your skin. A walker in the woods out the back bedroom window. – Little girl ghosts, Laura in Glass Menagerie, spring, air, vapor, mirage, hallucination Hidden, secretive, … [Read more…]

Decision to Wait

It was my decision to wait. Wasn’t it? I took women’s health in college. I knew that fertility after 35 dramatically decreases, that the risks genetic abnormality increas along with the rates of miscarriage. I decided, however, quite based on my gut, that I’ve always been young for my age and that things always seem … [Read more…]

Its as if we live in different worlds

And I suppose we do in a way. Isn’t class as much a separator as language, religion? Hasn’t poverty and wealth become that thing which divides us? I think the culture of poverty is what divides mom from everyone else in life. That combined with mental illness. Its hard to tell. Has she seen London? … [Read more…]