Category: journal

  • Guilty

    Guilty

    I am the swollen tongue that impedes the cry. The tears carving valleys in puffy cheeks. The thunderous beating of the heart in the ears. If the truth is what hides in the cough that tries to escape, is guilt the quivering hand that covers it? What then is absolution,…

  • Deer Trails

    Deer Trails

    You know how our earliest roads were made? The animals. Stamped in the soil as they made their way to water and safety. Their tracks set in earth, we learned the trails to avoid, like bear as well as the ones to follow, rabbit, deer. Soon our steps covered theirs…

  • 8:30

    8:30

    I have thirty minutes. I used the first 10 to push down the internal cacophony, steel my voice for the short call. My cat appears with a head butt to the side of my face as if to say I’m running out of time. I dial. The phone rings loud…

  • ☀️

    ☀️

    I have the caffeine of three suns flowing in my veins. Solar energy. I can’t miss anything. Tired is history, I am present. I can’t miss anything if I tried. Ever present, even in the darkness, I won’t miss anything this big again. I am here. I am awake. This…