skin thin

there is this thing about me i wish i could change: my skin is too thin. you can almost see it, flesh stretched over frame, opaque…translucent. how can those things be when they're seemingly opposite? i've tried to change. i've tried not to care....

Roar’s whisper

Ten…twenty years ago I was a lion.  Loud, proud, a conqueror.  I knew things.  I was sure and strong and bold and confident. I'd invite you in but I controlled the distance; you just didn't realize that.  Something about my roar...

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"Feed me, Seymour!" I'm channeling Audrey II from Little Shop of Horrors except ~ ~ I'm screamin' "Read me, Y'all!" ~ this post has nothing to do with gigantic blood-sucking, vampire plants, ~ and I've never actually seen the...

The beautiful thirst

It caught me by surprise last night; a sense-memory so strong it transcended time. Sipping well water from a silvery dipper, dented and pocked, drawn from a bucket that had plunged into midnight deep, a mystery as fresh and wonderful to me as new birth.  I...

Show and (not) tell

Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.  ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne   It was the first honors class I took in...

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