Hail To The Lung Torture Drains To Save — If you can’t laugh a little at your lifesaving torture chamber moments, well then . . . by all means go ahead and cry. I certainly shed a lot of tears. I bawled like a baby the first time I had a thoracentesis to drain fluid on my left lung…

Air Affair: Cheating With Mechanical Lungs Lover — No sense in denying it. I’m having a kinky affair with a non-human. I couldn’t help myself. The knight in mechanical shining armor swooped in and scooped me up from certain death. Doesn’t mean I love him and that makes me sad. Enthralled by rhythm, by your plastic’s hose embrace, My…

When Less Is More: Reader Fatigue — As a hard core Empath, I find myself nightly Energonapped drowning in the world’s woes. My sleep deprived gremlins have declared a wage war, that dictates fighting for the collective good of others. It’s not lost on me that the situation is grave enough to demand action! Once again I…

The Party Was Over A Long Time Ago: Just No One Knew It — Even as a teenager I was aware that California’s Dead Sea (aka Salton Sea), was an ironically danger filled place. That no joke fact wasn’t lost on me on the day when we broke camp there to move to a new more desirable newly vacated one. Thinking I had secured…

Using Cançon Poem Basics To Write Better Music — Music was my “thing” long before poetry was. My childhood was three hours a day practicing, performing, and listening to music. My music lessons and instruments were luxuries that my poor mother worked overtime for me to have. My helicopter parent father (usually unemployed) taskmaster demanded perfection. …

From France To Two Tribes: Spirit Animals — Storytelling (and poetry) runs deep in our family DNA, especially when it comes to animals, both real and imaginary. …

In The Closet Box Of Failed Gifts — It was a confusing marriage proposal. On the day that he asked me to marry him, with tear-filled eyes, he promised a better life, a ring of my choice, and most important of all (in his mind) — there was another gift to cinch the deal. The gift he came…

History Myths Still Being Written And Believed — Misinformation, disinformation, and propaganda hang thick in the air, especially raining on what is actually history unfolding in our lives. All of this is dooming us to not easily knowing what’s real and what is fake. …

When Life And Anger Steal Your Dreams — I wasn’t mad at any one person. I wasn’t mad at the world. However, I was boiling over mad at the universe or whoever was in charge of it! Twenty-one years wasn’t enough! This was totally unfair! I plunged off the deep end. Set out on a path to wallow…