Inherent Imperfection

* * * My alarm woke me up and I reached for it in the blinding darkness. The curtains were shut tight; my room was almost as dark as a tomb… knocked my car keys off the bedside table in the process as well as the wine glass that still had a little red wine; [...]

Glass and plastic It’s funny you know…I think about before and I think about now…I wish I was that girl again. You know that girl…the girl with hands scarred with firewood and smoke stained black finger nails that turns hot boli so that it doesn’t burn…you know that girl…you must have seen her, or someone [...]

Untitled. It was raining outside…the constant drone on the zinc roof accompanied with the claps of thunder that shook the very walls of my house jerked me out of my light doze. I looked to the window pane on my right, dawn was here. Today feels perfect already, the smell of newly bathed grass wafting [...]

Yellow You were the first child of your mother, the only child and she called you ima mi…her heart, your first memories are of her hugging you tight, kissing your wet cheeks as you cried. Her heart… that is what you were. You were the only one you knew with hazel eyes.  Oh how other girls [...]

I was awake long before I opened my eyes; I knew I was alone here; I hung my head low, gauging the sounds around me. There was nothing, I let out my breath slowly and tried to move, I was bound tight I knew that already but I tried anyway. My head snapped back and [...]