The Long Night & Haiku ~ 12/16/14

                  I stayed awake all night a few ago…No…I wasn’t reliving my teens pulling an all-nighter, partying, having fun.  I stayed awake all night, crying, and praying, and writing. I am at a place in my life that intellectually I knew would arrive, but emotionally I never wanted […]

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Stripped Bare

Fear.  It possessed their souls.  Maybe it has always been there, but for sure it is magnified…wearing a gown…attached to wires…holes being poked in their arms…strangers walk in…modesty walks out…no idea who will touch them…who will hurt them…what are their rights? Nothing happens until everything does…and then they move with lightening speed and you can barely […]

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