Persist and Persevere
Perseverance is saying no to life’s no’s. It’s Chicken Soup for the Soul and 130 rejections from publishers until one said yes and...
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Writings
Departures
We were together in the indigo swept mountains of Thailand before I left him for the Mediterranean sea. When we lived together on a Thai...
Going Not Gone
It was the third day of Burning Man, and Abbie took 120 micrograms of acid. Within the first hour of her trip, she was a crumpled ball on...
Touched to Touch
The slight brush of a shoulder while walking past a stranger. Fingers, like wanderers, find each other beneath the dinner table. Eye...
Crying in Foreign Countries
A night club in Amsterdam / My best friend’s concerned gaze / A filthy man’s touch / A recollection of the past / Midnight strobe lights...
The Hood
121st Street is at war with itself. The cement does not yield to the bodies that walk upon its shore, nor the men that fight upon its...
El Sol
I lay on the damp Earth and the grasses tremble above my head, they too are breathing. The grasshoppers click their legs in melodic...
Calling Goodness
I write a poem while there is a war in Ukraine. I grocery shop for organic produce while there's genocide in Myanmar. I dance half naked...
Seldom Satiated
I have practiced numbness by taking and taking and barely getting half way full. A disjointed internal monologue loops: But maybe this...
Old Man Pat
He lives in his off white finca in Southern Ibiza. When he comes home, he drinks three glasses of pinot blanc and plays reggae fusion...
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