Denial

NaPoWriMo 2022 // day 15FMF link-up :: deny keep your crossesand your fancy silver cups,your white liliesand modulating hymns. my heartis still stuck in the gardenwhere the Main Charactersuffers a mental breakdownalone while the religious eliteready their robesfor a [culture] war the zealotsdream of their Empire and the followersare still fast asleep.

EMDR: I

NaPoWriMo 2022 // Day 3 She walks into the closet and liftsthe lidded box off the shelf.Her fingerprints leave smears in the dust.Opening the memories she divesdowndeep into the darkness. __ Hot roomhundreds of bodiesliving on their own bowed-headislandsalone. Heart poundingshe whisperedprayers to an angry godwho demandshell to payfor her grievoussins of age six,while the … Read more

Five Minute Friday: City

Every Friday, I spend five minutes or so writing on a word prompt from the Five Minute Friday community. Then, I hit publish. Good for the writing muscles and for cultivating a playful approach to the writing work that can sometimes be taken oh-so-seriously. seventeen-year-old selves findspace to dance with all the dreams insideon the uneven concrete … Read more

Five Minute Friday: Desperate

Every Friday, I spend five minutes or so writing on a word prompt from the Five Minute Friday community. Then, I hit publish. Good for the writing muscles and for cultivating a playful approach to the writing work that can sometimes be taken oh-so-seriously. We will race the sunand we will win. Shine your worst, you presumptuousglow, … Read more

Five Minute Friday: Accountability

Every Friday, I spend five minutes or so writing on a word prompt from the Five Minute Friday community. Then, I hit publish. Good for the writing muscles and for cultivating a playful approach to the writing work that can sometimes be taken oh-so-seriously. wanted: able-hearted Bodymemberto name the nefariouswithout dumping the humanityinto the blender. wanted: story-tellersto … Read more

Five Minute Friday: Drive

Every Friday, I spend five minutes or so writing on a word prompt from the Five Minute Friday community. Then, I hit publish. Good for the writing muscles and for cultivating a playful approach to the writing work that can sometimes be taken oh-so-seriously. for reformed world-savers and grace-leashers when driven to save the worldSabbath becomes unredeemed timeand … Read more

Five Minute Friday: Order

Every Friday, I spend five minutes or so writing on a word prompt from the Five Minute Friday community. Then, I hit publish. Good for the writing muscles and for cultivating a playful approach to the writing work that can sometimes be taken oh-so-seriously. they talk about ‘natural order’as if they were actuallytherein the beginningnaked and fearless … Read more

Five Minute Friday: Quiet

Every Friday, I spend five minutes or so writing on a word prompt from the Five Minute Friday community. Then, I hit publish. Good for the writing muscles and for cultivating a playful approach to the writing work that can sometimes be taken oh-so-seriously. the silence steers meup the spiral staircase of memoryand I’ve sometimes been tempted … Read more

Five Minute Friday: Slow

Every Friday, I spend five minutes or so writing on a word prompt from the Five Minute Friday community. Then, I hit publish. Good for the writing muscles and for cultivating a playful approach to the writing work that can sometimes be taken oh-so-seriously. In the dripdripdrippingof the steam-kissed coffee In the space between the pendulumswingsmarking moments … Read more