Note: A lot of language surrounding gender is new. These words/ideas have been around for years but it’s only in the last decade or so that the singular “they” and the idea of gender as a spectrum have entered the public consciousness. You’ll see a lot of the outdated style of language in this piece,…
Category: Another World Within
Home and other Poems
Home wherever you lead,I hope your love leavesa map engraved upon myheart that I can trace witha touch and follow back tolinen sheets and tucked awayweekends that suckle awaySundays dry, until all we haveto drink is our bubbly laughterand fall asleep at dawn, oncewe’ve tired of sharing breadand conversation and tradingsecret glances, whisper touches,I ache…
Inheriting Dust
I was always told you were a hermit living out your days on a decrepit shanty boat. An old relic who shut his self away from the world. I reckon your hands were calloused with the repetition of mending crawdaddy traps, honing fish knives, and polishing a rusting gun barrel. Inheriting your old trunk, I…
Kayla Marie
I remember you thinking about what to do when we’re gone. There are so many options now, “Bury me gently in the cold dark earth” “Bury me in satin… Lay me down in a bed of roses… Send me away with the words of a love song… … oh oh” I could be a tree!…
The Story Behind the 2 Rules of Writing
A lot has been going on at the website in the last few weeks. We took on an intern, Blossom Akpojisheri of Port Harcourt, Nigeria. We’re sorting things out with a photo editor, Allegra Boverman. And the website became financially self-sustaining. It’s a lot to celebrate all at once. Considering Erika and I founded this…
TED Talks and Writing and Bowels
One of the issues with writing is that people always compare themselves to the rest of the world. It’s understandable to read a short story by Hemingway; to admire the master-class in compression and repression; and think to yourself: “I could never write like that.” That’s an easy way to score points against yourself. Because…
A Circus of Turtles & Naked Energies (Like the Wind #5)
Start from the First “Delivery” From Delivery 3: She looked at the ducks and laughed. They are just like little lost people wandering around importantly and have no idea about anything other than their own little pond. Finally the days dragged by. On Saturday she waited at the door of the Samai Thai Restaurant and…
Disability Wrath Month
July is Disability Pride Month. And I could write some empowering piece about how I make my life work even though fibromyalgia and I’ve got all these things that don’t work in the ways bodies and brains typically do and rah rah rah. I know how to write about Pride. I’ve done plenty of it,…
Streetlights
Weary from my travels, Iturned the corner into their laneComing home, back to themEverything a little different, but still just the same. The selfsame faces beaming round the tableA meal and some deliberationThe warmth washed around me in wavesEven in that dry summer, offering salvation. My eyes were as bright as the yellow lightsAnd I…
Tears (The Pearl Collector 3)
“Take care. Goodbye.”The airline was cancelled. I was thinking as if the typhoon knew what I was hoping for: to delay his departure, as late as possible. I hate seeing people off because I hate goodbye. But now I always insist on seeing people off, because I have missed it once, and I don’t want…