Humanity: Raw & Unfiltered
The fields are gone, the chains remain, Now they brand you with debt and shame. Cotton mills turned to glass and steel, You’re free but can’t afford a meal. Railroad kings laid tracks of gold, On stolen earth, their fortunes rolled. Crypto kings now stake their claim, Lady Liberty weeps Read more
Adios (sung on tremolo) Evelyn – Why are you not A sun-carved shape Predictable as a Windowless stone I could hug you into my Bones Even if your hair might lure with serpents I could kiss your feet for the longest minute Relish without a second of hesitation Print me Read more
When you get to be my age, you reflect on how you spent your time here on earth, the people you loved, the ones you didn’t, the dreams you wove, and the ones that unraveled. What you see is a study in personal evolution. If you’re lucky, your life was Read more
When I watch you, and I mean… watch you Like a stalker at poetry readings I am at first engaged, noticing the enunciation You do, the measured beat, the drum like inevitability Of your cascading words And then I sink into you I feel selfish, like the words are for Read more
Your mother is soft tissue like rabbit ready for stew. Your mother is murder, she just doesn’t know it yet. Your mother is long rambling speech patterns. Your mother is perfect oval shapes. Your mother is god-like and fickle. Your mother is suffering. Your mother is seven miles uphill. Your Read more
When we talk about grief, people often imagine it arrives like a thunderclap in the very moment a loved one dies, followed by an immediate aftermath and the early tears. But for many of us who’ve lived it, grief isn’t loud. Sometimes it simmers quietly for years, showing up as Read more
