When I was a young person with an anomalous heart that had yet to fully test the nature of that heart in this life-thing, I wrote a lot of poems. A LOT. It was something that sustained me through some very rough times, for about a ten year period, beginning when I was around 15. … Read more
A term used for astronomy is appropriate when we consider the twists and turns of life. When we look at the pinpoint of light from a star, we know that the light could have taken a million years or more to get here, so we are really looking at the star as it was eons … Read more
Some names were changed in this one (including mine) because some innocent people are involved. At near the dawn of time—my time—I had a girlfriend. She was a younger woman. I was around 6 and she was around 5. The thing I remember best from our time together is that when she would be talking … Read more
As a child, I was abused. That’s a good place for a bent heart to start, but I don’t say that as necessarily a defining factor in my world. This means I am not going to lean heavily into the surviving/overcoming/triumphal-release trope, because the truth is I didn’t really survive it. I can’t speak for … Read more