Through The Looking Mind

  There are daysI wake already falling. Not from a rabbit hole but from yesterday's certainty, watching it unravel before my feet remember where the ground was meant to be. The maps insist there should be roads here. Instead, there are conversations with what feels abstract, questions that answer themselves, doors that ask for smaller…

Love

I used to think love arrivedalready named. That someone would hand it to me like a language.One others had learned in childhood while I was absent. I thought love was duty. Not warmth.Not always kindness. Just…remaining. I mistook proximityfor affection. Silencefor safety. Obligationfor care. Then, I thought love was fireworks. It was warm fuzzy and…

In Becoming

I have learned to inhabitthe spaces between words,where truth sitslike morning dew on grass. Once, I thought strength meanttaking up less space,folding myself into cornersuntil my edges disappeared. But wisdom comesin the gentle unfurlinglike ferns in spring,patient and inevitable. My heart has becomea listening room,walls weathered softfrom holding others' stories. There is no grandeur here,only…