The blessing

All of our voicesmatter.If one cannot speak those wordswithout a crinkle across the browor a twitch in the shouldersthen equality is not a value of yoursand this blessing is notfor you, for now. There must be a full acknowledgmentthat we are all created, all fallen,all capable of good, all susceptible to failure,all worthy of respect,…

OBJECT THINGS STUFF

messy bits we carry around. In 10 days, my debut collection of poetry will be published & available for the world to see. But before that, some context. I have loved poetry since I was a child. My cousin, Lindsay, and I once produced a hand-illustrated, yarn-bound collection of poems based on the creek in…