What Crosses My Mind

  • We Have Similar Skin

    Watched him today many eyes would notice a downcast security my body my own my mind thrown to the wolves with one glance back. Watched her today some certainty might allow a surrounding hypocrisy unleash ugliness for is it not he, she once, he will wish they might he know she lives, he … Lives.…

  • On Being White

    I have lived my entire life in a predominately white society. Growing up as a child I lived in a white community, later when going to college, more of the same, with a smattering of people of color entering my life gradually until moving to the Twin Cities in the early twenties. Even then, I…

  • Disappearances

    Sitting amongst the crowd eyes in search lips moving throughout the room every human interaction is bold, at least for the moment. ~ When unable to step away from the fear, how close can we become, to that which we are in constant run, the reality of our need, the showcase of a want we…

  • Continues to Happen (autism awareness)

    I walked past … didn’t notice kept on moving felt this motion I need to maintain What happens around me Just will continue I’m counting on that If I suddenly stop I might need to breathe – Whoosh In a day it seems Everything around me Continues to happen And yet If I were to…