I have decided to start a project called Poetic Polaroids.  Much like those classic photos, these poems are instant snap- shots of moments in time.  Raw.  Unposed.  Entirely candid.  Unedited.

I want to bleed for you
Tear my clothes and grieve for you
Pull my hair and scream for you
I am the listener of your nightmares
I am the [...]

One of my goals for this year is to become proficient in using/riding the train and bus system where I live.  I think the bulk of my trepidation regarding this venture comes from a rather miserable mishap I had years ago in college.
One of my dear friends and I worked for an afterschool daycare program [...]

I cannot quite convey how *thrilled* I am to announce the birth of a new blog: In the Words of Womyn.  You can read all about the vision of this new blog and what inspired me to start it here.  This blog serves as a kind of virtual open mic for womyn to give sound [...]

Did you ever have a penpal?  I remember having several at various points throughout my elementary school career.  We were paired up with kids from around the world and we exchanged letters.
Boy was it exciting to get those tell-tale red and blue boardered international mail envelopes with such exotic stamps.  There was such thrill and [...]

…in 2010.
2010 always seems like one of those fake movie years, like some random future date at which we will never arrive.  Welp, here we are.
I could go on with some story about why I abandoned my dear Front Porch visitors, but I’ll save you the tales and I’ll hope that you forgive my absence [...]

I always liked the idea of a window right over the kitchen sink.  There is something whimsical about being able to feel the breeze on a balmy spring day as you’re filling a pitcher of quenching water; something calming about watching the trees bend and sway in the wind as you clip stems to fill [...]

I was sick outta work
on my hands I had time
in between all my naps
I came up with this rhyme
it started with a tickle
then my throat got sore
so I bought all the Airborne
I could find in the store
I was sneezin’ and wheezin’
all laid up in my bed
had a pain in my dome
like a vice around my [...]

I cook many things.  I develop new recipes.  I pour over cookbooks.  I relish new flavors.  I revel in culinary victories.
My kitchen is my studio, my laboratory, my sanctuary.
While some women delight in buying a cute new handbag that just went on sale or those sassy shoes that just went on clearance, I celebrate (and [...]

my life is
a paradox–
a passionate
tango
of
already
and
not yet
I have lived
so many lives
this young body
holds captive
an old
yet
playful soul
I have come
so far
from where I began
and yet
still have
so far to go
I have swept
up the shattered
remnants of my
broken heart
and yet
have still
to drink
the sweet nectar
of love’s true bloom
I have conceived
of a dream
and it is alive
and kickin’
on the womb of my soul
and yet
it [...]

there is something heavier than lead
weighing down my heart
lead is
the color of this day
the color of once bright eyes
that sparkled and danced with life
lead is
the color of the shadow I see
in the weary reflection staring back at me
the color of being older than my years
there is something heavier than lead
weighing down my heart
lead is
the color [...]