Our daughter collects boxes. Big boxes. Small boxes. Boxes with purple lids that pop off or snap open on old brass hinges. Boxes with black velvet on the sides and pale blonde ribbons around the top. Boxes with soft cotton inside and holes pierced through the lids. Boxes in pieces, scattered like cardboard confetti and […]

Running Water

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Hong Kong Free Press

Your body is not small. The total surface area of the human lung could be spread to the height of a brachiosaurus. If you want to heal,you must firstfind every bruised place. Your body is not obvious.It sheds forty thousand cellsevery minute,and who knows how many of thosewere the last to rememberthe bruising? Just in […]

G2: how to heal

WRITING DURING THE APOCALYPSE

you have mistaken me for a damsel in distress waiting upon a handsome prince to rescue me slay the dragon you seem to be under the mistaken impression that I have no backbone that previous violations of my boundaries as a girl child has left me spineless voiceless you appear to be implying that I […]

I ain’t no Damsel

With Gratitude, Take 2

He gave her his word He wanted to impress her But the word was ‘eh’

8/14/2020

I have nothing useful to say or present, and it will be a while before I post fiction on here. Taking a break to write! Weird as that sounds. But I do have a morning sky shot to post. Air is still. Heat is coming. A sunflower just dropped a seed on my foot. A…

Morning Sky

I have nothing useful to say or present, and it will be a while before I post fiction on here. Taking a break to write! Weird as that sounds. But I do have a morning sky shot to post. Air is still. Heat is coming. A sunflower just dropped a seed on my foot. A…

Morning Sky