Is a pandemic not a testupon our ability to work in pairs to find answers and share?Rather we talk loudly above each other ripping masks off our faces and spitting at each other out of angerbecause we can’t accept that life before was a total mess.We long for what was and we fight so hardContinue reading “The fear of living here.”
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Will the tree collapse?
Will the tree collapseburrowing me beneath its pressure my strength is sub par and my stamina is one weighted by exhaustionand my mental capacity is overfilling as the gas is leaking from the opening. Ones ability to escape is linked to its need for survivaland if the tree collapses I wonder if I’d welcome theContinue reading “Will the tree collapse?”
Placing the eggs in order.
It hurts in here I ask them to release the pressure It’s swollen because the little bugs are multiplying laying eggsat the thousandssprouting more thoughtsI’m trying to collect placing the eggsin order as if they’ll write a story seeded within my brain. Several lined upon the table I swat them to the floor stand upContinue reading “Placing the eggs in order.”
Drawings I’ve made recently .
My drawing skill is not at a high level, in which I have been practicing lately with my daughter watching tutorials as we draw together and both get the chance to enhance our skill as well as spend quality time together. Although I find it stressful to draw images that have to look a specificContinue reading “Drawings I’ve made recently .”
We only live within the shells of ourselves.
To exist must one simply breath? To exist must one simply wake each morning?To exist is it simply living? Must your experience be known to othersto prove your existence?A slugleaving a slimy trail exists,if the brashness of the rain washes the trail away does that wash away the slug as well? Only if our feetContinue reading “We only live within the shells of ourselves.”
Before the blood freezes.
Externally I’m shaking trying to warm up before the blood freezesand liquification isn’t an option. A needle inserteda bag tilted inspecting as the friction meets the skin stay warm have to stay warm a lighter I’m never been a smokerand candles aren’t always necessary in the times of electricity. I breath out as the airContinue reading “Before the blood freezes.”
Awaiting the darts.
I feel my brain is bogged down by the body that contains itby the society that shapes itby the thoughts that are forced within it as if it’s a boardand the darts are the other words and simply the brain just sits in wait as the words mark their spot and I must accept theContinue reading “Awaiting the darts.”
We enter. We exit.
We enter;no breath a pat, a hitwe scream with tearsplaced upon a scaleweighted and marked a bracelet slapped upon our wrists snuggled close upon a chest as our life starts. We hear soundsand see up closeslowly further outthe shadows begin to take shapeand the voices we heardbegin to have faces. Those faces wrinkle and theContinue reading “We enter. We exit.”
Was it the left? Was it the right?
Two houses at the end of the street,was it the left,was it the right?Same color house same sizesame year built. I never could tell my left from my right without my hands raised. The house on the left had a body on the counter filled of knives,a head hanging from the string upon the fan,andContinue reading “Was it the left? Was it the right?”
The Earth is aching.
The Earth is achingbeneath the bodies standing upon it as all the feetand all the pawsdrag across the crust weighing deeper upon the land the Earth begins to crack. Bursting of rage the energy entering minds feeling the despair feeling the rage the bodies begin to break breaking themselves and others losing a sense ofContinue reading “The Earth is aching.”
Temperamentally Tina 