Force myself to relax and then hit the ongoing fast-paced merry-go-round The airplane violently shook for about three hours straight from Los Angeles to New York. I covered my head, prayed, held my son’s little fingers and tried to sleep. I had already been through the 14 hour […]
Fear The blood drips It’s dark and menacing Fear Need a fenced-in crib For the day of reckoning Fear Legs cannot stand upright While the blood circles about Fear Don’t shine the floodlight The body builds up a shout Fear The blood drips The stomach curls The bile […]
Summertime Memories: The scent of a mother I’m listening to the song “the Funeral” and feel an overwhelming sense of déjà vu while sad, yet nondescript memories come flooding into my stream of consciousness. To the outside the dead leaves, they’re on the lawn Before they died, […]
I swim in a tizzied dizziness Where can I hide and be free? Be free of anxiety, fear and week knees Stomach growls, rips, and grumbles My eyelids droop and mightily fumble I swim in a tizzied dizziness The legs hopelessly twist and tangle The […]
Reach for the stars while the heart wheezes Flush the flesh Bite the foot Syomp the hand Belt out a lyrical storm Primp the surrounding green sea Fiercely piercing the wide-eyes pupils The lightning flashes hand-whisk the mind While the heart wheezes on by Go […]
Stuck on a Langoliers-type flight: Tips for how to get through bad flights Happy Travel Tuesday! In the past three weeks I have had, what some may refer to as, bad flights. In one such flight, my plane circled our intended airport for 40 minutes and then eventually […]
A Container For the Collective Grief and Somber International AIDS Conference Upon landing in Melbourne, after 26 hours of feeling discombobulated in the air with a five year old in tow, I found out about the downed MH17 flight over Ukraine. At first, there were estimates that […]
Silly thing, you were not taught well I flicked you far, far away With not even a single thought Yet you came back with sway Silly thing, you were not well taught Crushed under the weight I stomped even more There was no other real fate Your bought […]
Let the bubbles take it all away: No more rebel yells It seemed like a lost cause But the sun has risen And we are startled at how mightily it shines To roar back To pull from behind To give it one’s all Triteness Ennui Deja vu Let […]
The Five Second Rule Life Lesson My son dropped his Oreo cookie onto the floor and he looked mighty sad. He knew he was just supposed to have one cookie I soothed his worry way by letting him know about the five second rule. That wonderful rule […]
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