Writing

Man at desk with black birds
["Asgardian Seagulls," digital art by cedar, YWP]
  • Eighty-three

    Eighty-three

    out of

    one hundred

    and ten.

     

    One hundred 

    and four

    out of one hundred

    and ten.

     

    We contrast starkly

    I look like a beginner on paper

  • The Lock Pick's Garden

    I was never allowed in the basement, 

    there was always a lock on the door,

    and my parents avoided telling me why.

    Great parenting strategy, 

    not even making up a lie for me,

  • Watch faces

    I talked with this third grader on the bus

    she asked to see my watch face. 

    I showed her and said, 

    "this is me and my boyfriend at a concert we played

    at the Flynn"

    are you still in love?

  • Girlhood

    The girls,

    the little kids on the bus, 

    switching seats and grabbing friends and TALKING

    loud and jarring

    life is joy, to them,

    life is play.

    I want them to stay there.