How far can you bend without breaking?At what point can you no longer stand straightbefore starting the inevitable danceof weight awkwardly shifted side to side.Where do you feel pain points,restrictions, tight knots of tension,muscles pulled taut?What causes you to hunch over—pulled down by the weightof a broken world?When will you snap—pushed beyond your limitswith a…
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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…
