Relationships
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release.
Day 14 of the #decolonize30for30 National Poetry Month Challenge, as posted on Instagram by @ jlcreator. Today’s Prompt: Turn the thing that makes you the angriest into a poem. . tired of patience tired of waiting tired of understanding tired of being the villain tired of being okay with everything because if i’m not, there’s… Continue reading
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protocols.
it’s Day 15 of the #decolonize30for30 National Poetry Month Challenge, as shared on Instagram by @ jlcreator. Today’s Prompt: Write your relational protocols. (Let us know what it takes to be in an honorable relationship with you.) communicate your needs to me. let me know how you need me to show up for you /… Continue reading
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plans.
Day 14 of the #decolonize30for30 National Poetry Month Challenge, as posted on Instagram by @ jlcreator. Today’s Prompt: Turn the thing that makes you the angriest into a poem. well, i did it. i followed the prompt and birthed a whole emotional mess of words from a deep place of anger and hurt. i’m sitting… Continue reading
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hurt.
Day 12 of #decolonize30for30 National Poetry Month Challenge, as posted on Instagram by @ jlcreator. Today’s Prompt: Write to a person/group of people who have hurt/harmed you- tell them and ask them all the things you have always wanted to. . – i write for you sometimes. – i have stopped blaming myself. Continue reading
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insomnia
Day 9 of the #Decolonize30for30 National Poetry Month Challenge, as posted on Instagram by @ jlcreator. Today’s Prompt: Call a loved one and do one of the following, then writes about what comes up: – Ask them a question you always wanted to ask. – Tell them why you love and are grateful for them.… Continue reading
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for all the times
Day 6 of the #Decolonize30for30 National Poetry Month Challenge, as posted on Instagram by @ jlcreator. Today’s Prompt: Write a poem that confronts the part of you that has hurt someone else. for all the times i tell you no that i’m too busy too tired too exhausted from taking care of other children yet… Continue reading
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“you suddenly complete me”
I’d forgotten about the song “Hysteric” by Yeah Yeah Yeahs, from the album “It’s Blitz!” When I was first listening to that album over a decade or so ago, the song that I kept replaying over and over was “Soft Shock”. “Hysteric” would come on later in the album, and I would definitely sit up… Continue reading
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down time
I have a million things to do so of course I spent too much time in bed deleting hundreds of photos from my phone. What I noticed the most this time, as I was scrolling through the years, were all the sleepless nights and early mornings, every holiday, every weekend day and night, when I… Continue reading
About Me
musings and imaginings of what we could become. what kinds of communities could we create? what kinds of schools could we build? what kinds of relationships could we grow? we don’t have to live this way. we could become something different.