Parenting defiant trauma
attached to both hurt child
and wounded parent
needing to continue
co-invested relationships,
positive and constant,
without breaks
in healthy communication,
direct
and, if possible,
playful
Counteracting fear
that both TraumaChild
and I
will pressure ego-me
to choose a Win
for Self
to lose relationship
by distancing from Other;
To choose Me
over We.
I want to choose both Defiance
and Deep Listening
playing win to win together
co-passionate,
positive,
healthy communication
Frustrated by
Lose-Draw-Win
triage decision-making
As if emotionless withdrawn
leftbrain dominant verbal communication
could out-perform
actively hoping
for contagious preverbal resilience,
resonant companionship,
mutual enjoyment,
bonded courage,
cultural curiosity
re-educating accurate empathy.
We have two new fosters she said
I was shocked thinking they were surely at capacity
Dobermans this time.
Case managers will not do any more home visits now.
Great plan if you say you only have two dogs when you have sixteen.
Frankly I would have stopped the home visits after the pot belly pig.
She was one hundred and ten pounds when she delivered eighteen babies.
A two-bedroom apartment can only take so much.
Right?
sublime eyes etching
on mystic magic
sans moaning macula
crushing canorous coda
lips lurching labium
made from megalomania
skin sans sore
like delicate draws
nocturnal nature's call
body melting mist
of gelid gift
choice callous clipped
all fiddling features:
Luna's fostering figure.
19:12:21:05:20
Breathless life
Silenced shadow
Denounce fixed hallow love.
Still beauty feeds desire
Longing what was.
Here life, forgotten love
Shall nest upon this chair.
Guard not love life forgotten
Hereafter eternal affair.
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March 15, 2016
thank god for dogs they make my life whole
I love them all young and old
although some of them just come and go
I will remember them all that I know.
they leave paw prints on our hearts
its always love right from the start
dog spelled backwards is god
its gods best creation by far!!!!
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