I don't need to fall in love

with someone who can write poems for me

about drowning in my beautiful spirit

Or telling the mockingbirds stories of how

My curves are modeled after Milky-way edges

And my smile is the first light that ignited

In the endless vacuum of a dark universe

No, I don't need that

Because I can write poems for myself

My words reinforcing the alloyed metal of my bones 

Metaphors floating in my mind like

Butterflies inside of violet bubbles, bouncing on the breeze

Ready to be popped and dropped onto the page

I need to fall in love with someone

Who is worthy of writing poems about

My words about him wielding no sharp edges

My fingers trembling from the need

To tell his story

And paint intricate tapestries as homage

To how his nose wrinkles when he laughs

I don't need to be wooed with frivolities

But nurtured from my roots

Keep the chocolate truffles and caviar

I'm looking for beans and rice

And fresh, black coffee

So, my future love, do not be afraid

To adorn my hands with your kindness

Do not be afraid of offering me love that looks like Pablo's rough wool socks

And moments in the summer sunshine

Because as Rupi says,

"I am not the whiskey you want

But the water you need"

So let's drink together and never

Stop

4/8/17

I'm

a hermit crab

with a hyper-speed

growth disorder

you'd be surprised

how 

expensive it can be

to find shells big enough

at the bottom of the ocean

4/20/17

I see God

In my own truth

What kindness

What a gift 

8/13/17

"other beautiful women serve as poor mirrors, my love"

she is what

I wanted to be

but I think

I look better

on me

and she looks

marvelous on her

lovely it is

when our skin 

fits 

4/20/17

"From nothing to something"

I watch in awe

as you bend yourself

around me

making yourself a shell

for my healing soul

they will find

our fossil

and think we are

a beautiful nautilus

but one astute

archeologist will see

through the years

and the dust

she will see me

grown comfortable

at the center

of your heart 

and this

is how you

created love

out of nothing

the first light

and the last breath

of a nautilus

8/14/17

LA IGNORANCIA

ignorance is learned

ignorance is chosen

pithy one-liners

blame shift

straw men

vitriol is the wall

the wall is bullshit

absent father figure

for a country in conflict

teaching: get yours

and screw everyone else

children who think

they know things

living a vacuum of

pain and conflict

angry children

who would rather be right

than kind

is it so hard

to admit

we may not know

something

that a piece of the 

puzzle

might not belong to us?

I have built walls of excuses

Around your heart

Loving your broken places

Trying to kiss you into wholeness

But you won't buy new shoes

Even though yours are filled with

Cement and small dreams

Small minds are your fortress

Broken hearts are your anthem

Cry that make you stay

When you should go

9/2/17