I tried to write a sad poem because the ache had gone from my head to my chest and I Couldn’t remember why it was I’d decided to take a...

Elephants worship the moon Or so I've been told, waving branches and boughs in their holy places. The moon never answers back, of course,...

You would do anything for me, sure You never loved me the way I loved you You only love me when I'm gone He only loves me when I'm here...

A thousand years ago I stood on the passenger seat of your car, head through the skylight, arms high up in the darkness, hands waving at...

I wish I could understand it. I wish I could explain it. When he’s here the grief is overwhelming. The grief that it’s not her. The grief...

As a child, I loved playing with my siblings and singing songs in primary. As a youth, I read my scriptures and prayed I would meet my...

Her smile mirrors my emotion when I share my moments of joy that are mile markers in my struggle. She travels with me in and out of the...

I was born with my crown of glory A beautiful curly, kinky, queer mass of blackish-brown I was born with my crown of glory Its bounce,...

Instead of tears the words come spilling out of me, and I’ve grown weary from trying to divert the flow of them. I’ve grown weary from...

Ask me to change I don't see why not Thrifty? No Dedicated? No Level headed? I could go on but what would that do Ask me to change any...

How do you know how to cure the woman’s limp if you’ve always walked with two evenly healthy legs? Don’t you know she’s prayed for two...

In the evening when the boys have gone to be with you my fingers trace the edges of book bindings. I trace them like old memories of when...

We have covenanted--not to break--many things. To never be wicked Wickedness never was happiness. To bury our weapons of war Let the soil...

If you call on love, but it doesn’t answer don’t assume it is indifferent, or yourself unworthy. Not if you call with the most wounded...

I left her office after being shaken like an etch-a-sketch. The emotion coming just to the surface in my chest, my gut, my breath. When...

There is a certain satisfaction that comes from holding space for yourself. Setting out two cups while you wait for the tea kettle to...

My husband is still my husband even though my body has nothing left to give him when we are stripped of all mortal attachments. When we...

You were not one to see details in faces, until hers – flecks of gold in her eyes, age-worn parentheses framing pink lips, undulating...

The first time you see her, your heart stops for a second. Try not to think about it too much. The more she lets you in, the more at home...

Clean the kitchen; secure iron pipes under the sink Bedside table: finish tile mosaic, reread dead teacher's letter; clean spilled ink...