writer – Page 11 – Thistle Thoughts

What I Learned From My Mother’s Survival

…Torn apart is an expression
Best kept hidden
Worn by worn down women…

“Only in Legend” published
@ The Chamber Magazine

…you & I remain inside
different body & mental,
physical & spiritual prisons…

where burning becomes
a state of being, & ashes
are the taste of comfort

What of madness and
feminine energy?

My poor husband is in the hospital…

they’re only going
to keep turning it up

A poem written under quarantine.
My husband, unfortunately,
has Covid-19.

They say the sky
is thinner from that high

my blood can’t handle
any more apologies, insistence
on the right to celebrate
genocide…