In bed, one will ask “Are you ready?” ‘Ready’ has little to do with your age, you do not have to be going steady. There is no ‘right place’ or certain life stage. So long as someone uses some latex […]
Trail your fingertips over my skin. Make me arch with shivers. Lick a pathway from my navel to my breasts, hear me moan in pleasure. Kiss me everywhere and more. Let me love you forever.
I will never let you keep the accent lamp in the kitchen. There’s pans, and pots, and spoons, and knives. Cutting boards are littered with chives. The wine we have is Spanish, and the cheese we have is French, and […]
His sins do you confess them? No I keep them. To some a peculiar matter for wife and husband, but the summer I was sixteen thirty-two years after the summer my sister was sixteen what […]
i wish i were more things that a person could love, but my skin is raw and scarred, every second that i breathe is a second too long, and even with the right intentions my actions end up wrong. What […]
Here is an awkward social situation that I’ve personally encountered multiple times in the course of my adult dating career here at Acadia. I call this the ‘Dating Dilemma.’ This is the scenario: A nice boy from class […]
Sitting down at the dinner table with my family I faced an awkward conversation. It started with griping about the state of the world: America, Europe, crisis after pandemic after crash. It was a depressing start to a conversation, to […]
My journey with feminism has been long and complicated and has most definitely evolved over the years. Looking back, it is abundantly clear that my parents raised me and my two sisters to be little feminists pretty much straight out […]
Out of focus save for a lock of chestnut hair, my father wholly in shadow and his hands around my chest. My mother watching but even then consumed by her own darkness. It’s my second birthday, and my father is […]
Love is one of the earliest concepts I remember being introduced to. It was the unbreakable connection between family. You could fight all you wanted and the love stayed strong. I never understood that love; it never seemed as strong […]
My darling, with her clothes littered on a floor painted orange. The windows did not come prepared. Cactus on a stool, and a stack of our vinyls (we bought them in a far away fair). The nights are force with […]
My mother’s friend sips on her coffee, her eyes don’t leave my face. she warns as she looks at me, quietly, without saying a word, because at that age you must have heard warnings about smooth talking beasts, because things […]
Comfy sheets and blankets galore underneath the window sill, I cannot await you furthermore I just left you and still – I crave for you to hold me, to feel your warm embrace, I miss the way we used to […]
Don’t drop the hammer in the lake chilled inexperienced hands seem to think otherwise. Just, don’t drop the hammer in the lake honey. Shivering maple leaves were strewn upon the dock in autumn, and had rustled in protest in the […]
3,500 BC no metals native to this ground but people who built their lives in stone know stars and sea, know the scope of the world from here 2,500 BC Tarxien Cemetery comes strangely to life when metal comes to […]