Licked
“No one leaves here unsuccessful”. I committed this gym phrase to memory. I repeated the words to myself beneath the fluorescent...
April Showers
Walking between the raindrops. To be lucky. To be strategic. To be spared. April weather is supposed to be rainy. If it had been raining on April 21, 1990, my mother would not have ___________ I pause. I breathe. I no longer say, "died." My dad still says "passed." These words are wrong. Words matter. I sit in a meeting with community volunteers working on words, land acknowledgments marginalized histories. We go back and forth at length about censorship and who deci
No Direction
I have vacation left, more than I thought. The realization was the sigh of damp spring air. The days needed to be spent by early summer....
