As she stood fierce, pitched forward atop the Hamilton County Courthouse steps, arms high with her hand painted sign pressing toward the crowd, I wondered which women in her life helped her carefully paint that poster covered in red handprints made to look bloody. I imagined the kitchen floor covered…

Boundless Photo by Aditya Romansa on Unsplash Holding baby's hand. Download this photo by Aditya Romansa on Unsplashunsplash.com Boundless A mother’s love Bottomless emptying into babe Pouring forth into human Adulting. Toddler. Infant. Mine. Mirroring countless devotions Not enough smiles. Too many tears On faces memorized Mesmerizing. Mine. Worried over in wasted time Love. The word incapable Depths unfathomable reached

73 Wild Flowers For minds lost to time in an unkind world https://unsplash.com/@newsparx How can we pick the flowers With hands bent behind our back This blissful ignorance Forcing us to know Remembrance is not guaranteed Our minds were made to forget. Where are we when we don’t know Repeatedly…

For Daunte Wright Lost to his future Stolen from his safety Sent out to the world Through his tragic end Daunte was Wright In a world gone so wrong Mother hears final moments Of a son she loved with A Grandson to inherit Mistakes in a past that Might allow…

When asking me what size glass of water, milk or wine I desire, my husband realizes his error almost immediately. Though in the moment, politeness is inquiring, he already knows the answer when assessing the appropriate heft of bread ripped for my meal, the particular glass that will hold my…

34 Years A lifetime happens in 34 years Heart beats stop beating and other start. It all goes by so fast. Life lends a strange quality to the looking of it after decades and days blur by in the fast moving car we drive through our days. But when I…

Doctors of words Live in worlds timed By today and yesterday Their home visits Preventative or past hope Some clocks seem to run slower than a fox in socks All time runs out On those who cut trees To the last stump Unless someone like you Cares a whole awful…

CERTAINTY Certainty: noun firm conviction that something is the case. What arrogance or ignorance carries certainty into a room… …Into a space, into a mind? For better or worse, other than a full realization of the power of love, and the tenacity of fear, I am rarely plagued by certainty. …

It has become clear that we humans are very good at seeing the worst in each other. Placing our beliefs above all else allows us to raise or diminish others per our needs, feeding our narratives, whether to dehumanize or create demigods. And while I’d like to assume the best…