The B in LGBT. A tragic poem. Happy Pride! 😛 ~+~+~+~+~+~ Jasmine.The scent fills my lungs as I remember her blouse so close. Our piano arms rested side by side on the bus seat belts nonexistent to restrain her Flat chest that balanced a Sharp arrow to shatter my White milk glass. Her dazzling smile…
Gold dances in the memory of green eyes. Coils of fire flare in the dark of Erebus. She could cry...if she still had a body. Making her way with burning shades, she tries not to ponder that killers prey twice: the initiation of attack, and the peak when nervous souls abandon bloody bodies. Everyone here…
Daily writing promptWhat is one question you hate to be asked? Explain.View all responses Do you have kids? When are you having kids? Why don't you want kids? I was a girl with a list long before Tiktok's the girl with the list. I just never had the audacity to post it online or the…
A cave that seems a stone’s throw wide feels safe, a haven from searching storms, until curious children hear the clatter of the chasm paddle-pressing the pebbles down a flat scale, descending to a baritone staccato echo only a wraith hidden in mist could purr. Hours pass until a hollow plop unveils the dark rippling…
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…
Vibrations of volcano glossolalia vibrato spark, fly, pour, run red rivulets, drip burning droplets into my canal. A tune of flames I feebly touch. Hot summer air from forgotten swamps carries bullfrog solace o'er meadows to my humble carbon home. A laugh — human? A laugh, not mocking but sweet, cooling the heat to soft…
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