Neither had the intimacy of others, only the occasional bird willing to explore.
Read moreThe Day I Die
This is not the solemn low drone of letdown, with an honest knowing that life is as it should be. Rather this grief is the long traverse of deep sorrow into a valley, with stumbles over rocks and potential drops that leave you marred for life. It is a graceless fall, crashing along the way, to the bottom of it all.
Read moreTaking Up The Slack
The strange reality is both my parents are gone now, and with that the final hints of true devotion only a parent has for their child. The last of that echo, however faint it became these past few years, is now truly gone.
Read moreGhosted
How can death drive two distinct states of being? That which is a mystery can be quite unnerving and curious all at once. Whatever comes for us, either good or bad, is a connection not to be ignored.
Read moreAny Old Day Will Do
I collect bits and pieces of versions of you I didn’t even know, and somehow it makes me feel less alone, as if an old friend is staring back.
Read moreOddly Even
I’ve grown highly aware of all the versions of me that have existed like ripples through my lifetime. Not only the ones streaming farther away from me now as I grow older but also the ones left to come through me.
Read moreFloundering
Have we all been floundering for years now? It’s as if we didn’t die from the virus but the pandemic is still taking us down in other ways. Our family has been floundering for a while.
Read moreWaiting
It feels like all my life I have been waiting for the right time. Never really taking all that waiting and using it as time to discover myself. I can no longer wait, it seems silly to me.
Read moreCommune
I sold my mothers dining room table last night. One of the last things my mother mentioned to me, in her right mind, was what a poor job I was doing taking care of it. She was right but I like to believe it came alive in the second part of it’s life, rather than sitting lonely in a room waiting for people to commune around it only a few times a month.
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