On the Road Again

Although I have been playing hide and seek with my presence on social media, particularly over the past year and a half, I have also been working steadily over the past three years toward having a collection of poetry published. Poetry has been my place of solace for a long time. I sit in it,

Waste Not, Want Not

I’m wasting my timein the most delicious way. Telling you no when it should be yes.I want the knowing; want the regret left over from wrong choicesjust because I can. Just because you insist my yes be yesand my no go unsaid.

Truth in Another’s Mouth

I seem to be on a trend at the moment! I’ve been thinking about what truth is, what belongs to us and what truth belongs to others and what that all means. I’ve been thinking about how easy it is to lie to yourself and how much it can shock your mind and body when

Keeping My Hands to Myself

All I think about is how much I want you to survive. When you were fourteen, I told you: You can be anything you want to be, just don’t be a statistic I told you: “We live on the wrong side of town and I know, they know Your name not because they want to

Musings and An Old Offering!

Hello! I hope your NaPoWriMo is going wonderfully so far! Between work, several ‘secret’ projects, and attempting to be a normal, functioning adult, I have to say my writing has been a little hit and miss over the past week or so. I did however, come across an old thing I wrote a while back