I knew normal growing up. Maybe I didn’t feel normal or know how to act normal, but the rules were set and I knew pretty much what they were but just as surely I had no capacity to do that, be that. […]
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Can’t Wait!
I’m spent my life waiting, preparing, perfecting. When I lose ten more pounds, when that dress fits again, when the kids grow up and leave, when the dog dies… It never happens. Oh, some of it does. Sometimes even the […]
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[I’ve been using Robert Lee Brewer’s prompts for his November PAD Chapbook Challenge. His suggestion for the poem written November 6th (these are posted the next morning) is “For today’s prompt, write an addict poem.” What does he think I […]
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Duct-taped togetherbeneath a flimsy veneerhiding my brokenness —others believed me functional,able, effective. Little did they know…Alone I cringed picking up a phone,drowning in recriminationsafter what I sensed as socialfaux pas, never daring to claimany rights, any favors, despitesocial standing so […]
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“I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will only make sense in reverse.” ~ Philip Yancey She said I didn’t have to believe,I didn’t have to expect results,I didn’t have to be real, I couldact as if. As […]
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