Writing

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

    I'm wearing the same dress I wore last year, on an evening that felt like moonlight even though the sky was still a milky purple-blue by the time we left, arms linked, laughter spilling over each other and turning the air fragrant, because back th

  • Plan to Dream

    With my one and only life,

    I plan to think and dream,

    no matter if my ideas are rife,

    no matter how extreme.

    I’ll climb the highest mountain,

    figurative or real.

    My dreams, I‘ll keep on countin’,

  • Even When

    If I can walk through the rain,

    I can run in the sun,

    even when it feels like the downpour

    will never stop.

    Because even if it doesn’t for a long time,

    umbrellas will be offered

    from hands I love to hold

  • Founding Fathers

    If their expressions carved in stone

    could move once again,

    their expressions would remain stony.

    The dysfunction

    we allow to continue functioning

    Their gardens,

    now flowering with pollution