Activity here has died down a bit on my part due to all of my attention being diverted to BlueSky, the new Twitter/X alternative. It really is as nice as they say (at least for now) and I'm able to market my work with a wider reach. I've posted a few poems there that I…
Mama Bear asks how we can know childfree is the way to be for ourselves without experiencing what would be our children, but it's not bleu cheese, Mrs. Bear. I can't gag and tell the waiter to take it back. The waiter would just laugh and say "you made your choice, now choke and keep…
You say my eggs are fried? That's exactly how my husband likes them on the kitchen counter before work: slippery, licked, dead and gone. Photo by Megha Mangal on Pexels.com
I hold no infants in my arms. Throw your stones. Empty hands can catch them and throw the bloody rocks right back. You still can't believe I'll take my chances with my own pursuit of happiness? Don't be surprised at the lake of spit in your grave. Photo by Charles Parker on Pexels.com
I'll always be the villain in someone else's story. Many someones, in fact, because I exist: a single entity unreliable, irresponsible for being responsible to myself and my mature herd like a quokka, dropping certain vulnerabilities for the hunters so I can run away and breathe another day. I value only the eyes I see.…
I am fully woman always a daughter. Always looking up at wings, blue sky, the solitary moon, never craning down to stare at fertile soil. My neck doesn't bend that way. As far as I'm concerned, this is it. The end of the (pathological blood) line. Ragnarök. Armageddon. My ancestors do look down. There's nothing…
I am the bird that swallows your seed. I am the thorn that pierces the husk. I am the path leading away from every one of your fenced-in gardens. I am the dusty road desiccating your calloused farmer feet. I am the rider on a flight of wind far from hands that would throw me…
Self-inflicted sterile, so my beauty is just a fairy glamour. I feel safer. Stranger, I will never bear your tainted legacy no matter how firm you insistently thrust. Assail me with your crooked mast. Breach my jetty. I may crumble and bleed but I will not die by your parasitic hand in all the days…
Volcanic ash brings forth life: fertile for green grass, but I am the obsidian shard wedged in the slope, sharp glass cooled too fast. Heat rushes from me like undulating fog storming into the ground beneath my high heel. I poke holes in the growth and laugh. See the reflection of what you used to…
It was nice in the dark with fabric softener filling my breath and the quiet with snuggles, self-soothing like my momma taught me when I'd scream for company. I learned to love the silken dark both warm and cold because it was safe and never confronted my comfort with expectations. But I was left without…
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