Recounting Wounding Costs
...I know what it costs
to parent a tyrant
24/7
52 weeks/year
and yet avoid judging,
feeling guilty,
self-blaming shame
for all I am not sufficient,
yet.
I remember learning curious distincti...
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Categories:
unskinned, caregiving, discrimination, emotions, feelings,
Form: Political Verse
Skins of My Earth
...It was her skin in the ground
It was her skin with blood beneath
It was her skin with heat and humid
It was her skin in countless shades of grey
It was her skin in columnar colors of brow...
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Categories:
unskinned, body, earth, identity, mother,
Form: Free verse
Time
...The sky benighted, cloudy, grim,
In such a way that even dim,
Was every thought of mine.
And ponderous drops of weighty rain,
This morbid air and smell maintain,
Thus frame this scene malign!
W...
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Categories:
unskinned, depression,
Form: I do not know?