It’s been a dozen years now. The date approaches, nerves and anxiety piling on I always expect November to be crappy because it is the month that I said goodbye to you as you were lowered into the ground. I try hard to smile and ‘think positive’ like everyone on Instagram says to do… But […]
When the yellow is lifted off the bloom, drained away by actions that unmatch words, leaving behind a pale shadow that struggles to understand why even when the answer is as apparent as the brilliance of that bloomed yellowness as tangible as the fading smell of that deserted bloom. Unimportant is not a feeling wished […]
your cuts are delivered so effortlessly, landing with an outstanding precision, unexpected but extremely pointed… aimed right for the jugular, but slicing past the heart twisting upwards and forwards. the cuts are deep, leaving swathes of pain in their wake. you know what you are doing, you know the path and the destination, yet you […]
You shut the door. Firmly. I don’t have the energy to keep knocking.
I want to savor this feeling, it’s a thread of hope, unspooling and unfurling with each passing day, each encounter, each conversation. A hope that is a thought. That, perhaps, this time… this edge on which we stand is leading us to a jump… into a bottomless pool of happiness, love and complete joy, one […]
He was my first boyfriend. He wrote me love letters and quoted the Book of Solomon. I, at 13, had no inkling what those verses really meant. The apex of my sexual knowledge was limited to zero at that age. What I remember is that he was sweet. He would call the house on our […]
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