Family

He was my papaw and he was my father's dad.
When he died in 1994, it was both tragic and sad....

I promised myself that you’d never have the life I did
You’d never experience the things I did as a...

on her face
there used to be a sunrise
now, she hardly ever smiles
there are no kisses...

I smile and
listen carefully
to everything she says
every story
word by word...

her belly has wrinkles
she worries I notice that
she has something like a ditch
across...

it is simple
in our constant moving forward
we make our way as we go
we build bridges...

Woke up this morning
and found myself
relieved
I am free to think
I am...

My father was one of thirteen, so many uncles,
one committed suicide, one auntie lady of the night...

there are days I wish
I were not here, I wish
I were somewhere
far away from here...

I lived in
an incubator

a baby
weak
from entering
the earth to
...

Parts of me had been stolen away. A guy I didn't know had gotten his way. My Love abandoned and shattered...

“Flying Dutchman enters the darksome mirror
he has taken chosen to take down
all Sail....

lay your sleepy head and
remember it like this
small and square like February and
in...

You were greedy and it was your downfall.
You went to Las Vegas and you lost it all.
You lost...

Beneath the trees that stretch to skies,
A father takes his child in stride,
His roots dig...

Its dark as he enters through the sliding back door,

He's tired and hes distant and grumpy and...

"I love you good night sweet dreams"

I sigh heavy about to walk away

but then I...