All day, every day, I have dichotomies on the brain…good/evil, tenderness/violence, liberal/conservative, past/future, William Blake’s love/terror… I was thinking of love and terror as I ate gorgonzola waffle fries this evening. They say anger is a fear response, and I’ve been feeling very angry lately. I am cumbersome with it—it is awkward for me toContinue reading “love, terror, and waffle fries”
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blue eyes
they say idle hands are the devil’s playground that idle mind, like fallow field, will Explode with nature’s chaos, leading to eternal ruin? how then, when I am still how is it then that my mind tiptoes back to your eyes Divinity-blue when allowed to wander? tide your truth to me, an ocean for meContinue reading “blue eyes”
Word Power
“For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into idea, then into more tangible action.” -Audre Lorde, (1985) I went to a poetryContinue reading “Word Power”
