January — 2016
Mother! Come, lean close. Listen to my head as it spills rich stories of places I have not yet traveled. Bring me ink, incarnate, visceral. Bring me ink the color of blood, blood! True, deep crimson. I need to stain the white of the page with the pulse of what hasn’t happened yet. Mother! Run your hand through my hair. Let your fingers find the map of my restlessness. I have not traveled, not yet, and yet my memory refuses to hold anything but departures. I am going to travel. I have a thirst, a dry, aching hollow in the … Continue reading January — 2016