I cannot be broken twice but life is doing its damn best to bend me fold me into painful sharp origami shapes crane butterfly swan turtle frog dragon over and over deep creases form in my skin my muscles twist bones scream heart aches from compression soul cries mercy as I contort become unrecognizable fall […]
Origami
tu dois me croire. (you need to believe me) the teacher looks down at my 8-year-old handwriting i never could spell well in French it’s true she squints at the words, describing abuse like they are hard to understand then carefully, with her lips pursed, fingers suspended in air briefly like just before you begin […]
we will not be silenced – Candice Louisa Daquin
They are counted so says the news called “Cold Cases” found dead or gone missing all unsolved barely, or not investigated I remember how long ago someone (many?) defined “a good Indian” I wonder how many still agree enough to be unconcerned about these silenced voices ignoring the voices of their kin who are not […]
4,200 GOOD INDIANS? – Robert G. Wertzler
By Jessy Wallach, TIWP Student All readers are addicts chasing our initial high. No matter how much we read, no matter the story nor the genre, no book will ever match the wonders of our childhood tales. We forget now that it was not always a metaphor to say that stories are magic. Books came […]
Ink and Paper
Art Prompt
Predatory Animals
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My new (and first) poetry collection, The Comment Poems published by Raw Earth Ink is scheduled for release. It will be available in both print and e-book versions from Lulu. The Comment Poems_paperback The Comment Poems_e-book
IT’S REAL AND IT’S COMING JULY 24, 2023
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