I am from
I am from the dog-eat-dog family where
the youngest was not the baby but
the sin eater
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Tag family
Good Morning, Sunshine!
Every morning, without fail,
she put her depression and the misery of her marriage
in the broken dryer that stood in the kitchen
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Her Face Still Lights Up
I am only able to visit her now
about once every six weeks.
My eldest sister,
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Advice From A Tree
I love the little quotes that come across social media. In a world that offers too many stories of trauma and suffering, inspirational post-it notes, pictures and stories help us root back to our values. It’s like a mini church.…
Sister Who Could Not
It doesn’t matter now how tarnished it was,
what water and bramble ran between us.
What you thought was lost
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Bleeding out the Wound
I found out today that my beautiful, 17-year-old niece
Has been cutting
Up and down the sacred arm
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I Have an Acute Kind of Listening
that’s not entirely unlike psychosis,
difficult to distinguish if what I’m hearing
originates from the inside or the outside.
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Gossamer
You vulnerable
offering up surrender
in linear practical terms
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My Mother Also Weeps
Today
my sisters were murdered
and though I am childless
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A Tyrant’s Death
Dying
crabbily, kicking and screaming,
believing
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(It’s Over Now) Grandfather That Was
It’s over now
grandfather that was
I did not weep
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Still
Father,
I never spoke the words
But I wanted to tell you
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