remembrancer

Sleep steadily slips from my aching eyelids

desperate for one more hour of escape

of reflection

of p…

My 15-year-old son hugged me yesterday

My teenage daughter begged me for a bedtime story

My husband …

A shameful smile lurks in the corner

of every fold of fat

and widening waistline

gleefully posted by…

Hey ditty ditty, the cat or the kitty

the cow jumped over the moon

But her heels didn't make it

So s…

Sometimes broken means better

sometimes failure means experienced

means strong enough for the storm

…

A bright pink teddy bear was banished to the back of the closet

And its glassy eyes shimmer with pai…

I wanted to say yes

to the invitation to dinner

to the offer of company

to the slanted smile in your…

To meet our unmet expectations

We will scrape off our old perceptions

to grow shiny new understandin…

The glowing lights of my destination blaze fearlessly on my horizon

Clearly defined against the daw…

I’m caught in a raging sea of should’s, helplessly flailing against the tide I've created. Through t…

Letter to the Editors

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You are drowning us in a cacophony of words

your verbal vomit spewing with t…

When I try to picture a faultless face

I see smooth marble curving easily over defined musculature

…

God how she hated the burden on her limbs

That muddied her air and scratched at her skin

She resente…

If only, if only, the broken mom cries

You chose to look up and not text while you drive

My shattere…

I don’t want to be a hypocrite

Who gives theories as mentors

In place of the action I crave

But I’m …