April 8 Poetry Challenge Daughter Land
Daughter Land She reaches over and touches my hand tells me with her fake nailed manicured hand that she loves me– The year has taught me that words are fraught as any hand that could slap and scream I...
View ArticleApril 9 Poetry Challenge Poetry Is
Poetry is Possibility: Memoir-izing the day and Dwelling in the senses of the aftermath of living this moment to the next. This idea that words mean something new when arranged differently specifically...
View ArticleApril 10 Poetry Challenge Daughterland, Part 2
” We have been wounded by it (giving)” –Alberto Rios Giving: What it Takes My car door slammer, my you-don’t-get-it-you’re-too-old, my you-should-be-home-making-cookies my...
View ArticleApril 11 Poetry Challenge Daughter Land, Part 3
We are all lied to, my love mostly by ourselves we tell ourselves stories in which to wallow in which to cave in which to concede that is how we found ourselves today you with an unfinished assignment...
View ArticleApril 12-14 Poetry Challenge (Notes from the Journal)
April 12 April 12 Daughterland Drugs I want to keep her off the northern californian crutch as long as possible I keep thinking it’s a green leafy battle but she’s thinking it something else I’m...
View ArticleApril 17 Poetry Challenge Requiem for an Ending
We meet in my office alone not too long, just long enough there are children to discuss and the taxi-ing of children to various places to various things i do not hate him if i can look at him, his face...
View ArticleApril 18 Poetry Challenge The Daughter Land Map
The Daughter Land Map It shows everything and nothing the terrain steep–so much to climb through in hardly enough space to breathe there are rocks and cliffs and a river somewhere on a distant valley...
View ArticleApril 26. Poetry Challenge. Interior Landscapes
If you never have anything you don’t know what there was to lose… my children know, though they do as they most surely knew love and warm dinners and cracked smiles and laughter as long as the days...
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Blue Sky Freedom–Rabble Lit
Throwing Chanclas is my newest personal essay up on Rabble Lit. I love this journal and the work they publish. It continually makes me feel like my perspective–my own working class background now has...
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On Mothering, On Lovering
Throwing Chanclas ON MOTHERING There are only two things you can do when someone misrepresents/defames you. You can either go inward and try and ignore it and hope one day that truth wins out and that...
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