Get used to isolation, but keep trying to connect. — Smile — until you don’t care what everyone else thinks always smile — it protects against pity. Watch for the smallest deviations in your path. If you fail to pay attention, they will pitch you out onto the ground to lie helpless for what seems like eternity until you get moving again…

To a life played out in clips — “You can come and pick her up now,” the receptionist says over the phone. We take the short drive to the vet’s — shortened further by my state of mind. Lately, I can’t remember how I get from point A to point B. Ever since Daddy and I left you…

Do you have an unhealthy balance in your relationships? Do you give far more than you receive? Do you go to extremes to help others without a thought about how it affects your life? Do you have a strong desire to appease people and feel uncomfortable sticking up for yourself…

A villanelle in support of Ukraine — A tyrant’s power rises from below. Imagine when he wages war if every soldier just said, No! Instant peace, even though not grasped before: a tyrant’s power rises from below. Imagine hate fallow, impossible to flourish more if every soldier just said, No! To follow Father Moscow the military must ignore…

Brought to you by your homebody — Today, love your body love every damn inch of it Its folds, curves and mass Love its shape even if no one else does The skin it’s dressed in no matter the color no matter how wrinkled Love its hair or lack of hair The face it presents to the…