Net worth and bottom lines, Paid off houses, and money under the mattress. Financial security, He held two jobs, His son can barely hold one. They don’t speak Spanish in the home anymore, The grandchildren went to college and grad schools, And seem to be happily married. My father spent all the money on drugs,…
There are oceans and valleys and peaks and rivers And lands on fire. Under our breastbone, there, flames and ripples and caverns of Pain. Shoved and crammed and multiplied, I touch it but it hurts, Smarts, Burns my fingertips. It bubbled up recently, my lips aflame, My mind nimble and quick to destroy, To avenge….
For they have always dominated what they have feared. Myself included, the ticker truly is after those seeds were planted, And watered, and rooted, Little spiny, barbed and buried things in my heart, They need not whisper such horrors in my ear any longer, I had a whole internal system to do the same. A…
To all the mamas and papas and in between who parent with love and adoration children who have been given a disability (visible or invisible), I see you and you are not alone, even though the world would often have it be so. I used to be better at rest, I have wondered where the…
I have given them what they asked of me, I have sat in classrooms, raised my hand ( not too much or too many times, just enough to show my curiosity, a safe distance from the flame in my belly as to not scare off) I Listened well, hunched my shoulders and kept my purity…