You only meant to glance at it.A few headlines,a moment of catching up.And hours later,it is still with you,a heaviness in your chest,a low unease you cannot quite put down. You are not too sensitive for the world.You are not… Read More ›
At the very top of you, where you meet the heavens, something is flaking away.A shedding at the crown. A dryness, an irritation, a quiet letting go of small pieces of yourself.It gathers where your thoughts live, where your spirit… Read More ›
Just as you settle into stillness, something in your legs begins to stir.A restlessness. A crawling. An urge to move that will not quiet.It rises most in the quiet hours, when you long to rest, and it keeps you from… Read More ›
It began with an eye. Not a human eye, not an animal eye, but something so enormous that I found myself drawn impossibly close to it, as close as I could possibly be, close enough to study every detail of… Read More ›
There is a great tide that moves through you.Sometimes it lifts you high, into brightness and speed and endless feeling.Sometimes it draws you low, into heaviness and shadow and quiet.And between them, you have long been searching for steady ground…. Read More ›
The conversation is long over.And still it runs in you.The thing you wish you had said,the reply that came too late,the moment you went quietwhen you longed to speak.Days later, it is still turning,rehearsing a version where you finally found… Read More ›
Of all the places in the body, the breast is one of the most tender. It rests over the heart. It is the place of nurturing, of warmth, of closeness held against the chest. It is soft, and it is… Read More ›
You notice it after the fact.The way you picked up their phrases,their moods, their opinions, their energy.The way you shifted to match themwithout ever deciding to.And later, alone, you wonder,where did I go in all of that. You are not… Read More ›
The moment it begins,your body knows before your mind does.Your heart quickens.Your legs feel unsteady beneath you.Your stomach tightens,your thoughts scatter,and something in you wants only for it to stop. You are not weak.You are not too fragile for the… Read More ›
Your heart has lost its steady rhythm.A fluttering, a racing, a quivering where there was once a calm and even beat.Sometimes it settles, and sometimes it stirs again, this restlessness at the very center of you. Your heart keeps the… Read More ›