you were the one to keep our family together Imagine  Skin forged together, engineered and replicated  And sewn together like  Patchwork.  A delicate beauty of embroidered flesh  A blanket moistened by the oils of shea Yet strong. Grafted together by bronze stitching  Imagine Being worn like a cloth shawl,  Washed and hung after muddy winters… Read more

Choosing this journey is choosing  to break. Choosing to remove strip bare the layers between this here;  and that now Choosing to soften hard flesh, to step calloused skin  on to grit  Unto broken shells upon the shore Beckoning  Baring down gravity’s call,  tilling footprints of trauma and transmutation Choosing to step again, to forge … Read more