Tag: writer
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On Trusting the Universe and Beautiful Queer Art (article)
What does the phrase, “trust the Universe,” mean to you? I ask this as someone who just left their stable, part-time job in favor of a newer, more uncertain path for the sake of their dreams of being a writer (among many other passions and pursuits I wished to prioritize). Synchronistically, when I put in…
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Dad. (poem)
taking the scenic route bad jokes excitement coming out as over-explaining Patience. Understanding. Tolerance for my terrible twos. reaching the tallest shelf rerouting to the lost and found fixing the things you can’t teach me Coming all this way. Believing in me when I chose to break just because I couldn’t see. a little baby…
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An Elegy About Time (poem)
Tributes to Tim Lake toss themselves about my worried mind as I regard a simple salient thing you broke my heart two seconds ago Your smile crinkles your eyes like choco-tin wrappers and I smile back at you fixing myself to leave you here in your own stagnant corridor of time You were very beautiful…
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A Map of Neither Here nor There (poem)
E-Clips Solarpunk robots extract sunflower speculations. Curly hair whisks the ever-loving carnations. Moondust shines and raindrops sparkle. Clinking clatters those visage disasters. The Sweet Spot Candy dollops Pastel cream, pastry pixie nightmare dream. Sprinkling berries, baked-in bagels. Molten mega lava cake. Illuminated aluminum on a big silver plate. Storylook Cinema Little red’s velvet closes in…
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What I’d like you to know about me (poem)
What I’d like you to know about me I’d like you to know I’m not a woman, not in the way most people recognize it. My gender ebbs and flows like a cosmic nothingness that is both here and there. Only I can call myself a girl or a woman (gender-neutral). On my insides, a…
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Kindness (poem)
If you ask me, being kind is a multifaceted practice and its delicate nuances are essential to understanding how to be genuinely kind to those around you. For one thing, being nice is not the same thing as being kind. Being nice is taking the easy way out, not pointing out the painful or uncomfortable…