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  • Happy Home

    We’ve built a happy home created the life we wanted the bubble that won’t pop the reality blissfully skewed to our liking With adopted children from the midsection cousins in far away places uncles…

  • Not Much Point to this Post

    I feel as though you and I, dear reader, are beyond polite conversation. That’s why I say I probably will not have a sustained meaningful or sexual relationship with the guy who sent me…

  • Look Again

    Look again ornamental resolution is absurd Keep in mind again yen is not zen Tell me again Against the grain is so passé You know this lesson. you know this omen Resurrection

  • Scrambled 81

         April 1981. My brother and I are running around the backyard, searching for Easter eggs. It’s cold. Our movements are static, slightly-delayed in my mind—as though this is not a memory but an…

  • Spasm

    My ear has been gurgling for a few days. Making internal sounds that sound like choking and feel like muscle spasms. The choking I get, the Eustachian tubes being cock-blocked, or blocked in any…

  • Naming

    Jonesing it isn’t the best way to go he thinks solemnly while testing the tap for cold, not hot finds himself enveloped in tepid which wouldn’t be so bad if he’d had the time…

  • Happy

    Warning: pathetic girl-talk ahead. I’m broken again and tired and waiting for a ding from my cell phone to validate my existence. The ding has come daily, but still I wait. This could be…

  • Missing

    The ache is always there but it gets better It becomes bearable It becomes livable She meant the pain she felt for the loss of her son Still her words come back to me…

  • Ways to Let Him* Know You Care

    *Him being a clueless male and not my faithful dear readers. Say okay to cuddling, as in his definition of cuddling, not yours. Say alright to things you’d rather not do. Send a defaced…