Rain
Without rain, nothing can grow. Learn to accept the storms in your life.
The aftermath of a snow storm
When the atmospheric river was announced to hit the San Francisco Bay Area on the last week of January 2021, all my husband and I could think of was how that would impact the higher altitudes with a bunch of fresh snow. We had been wanting to check out the Calaveras Big Trees State Park during winter weather, so this seemed like the perfect chance to have a super fun weekend getaway. We got our...
she sells sea shells and storms
Which breaks first, the sea or the seashell? She cried over the storm, arms raised, wild hair flapping like a dying bird as unnaturally grounded as she was. She gripped the fragile, innocent thing-- too soon ripped from the sand-- to the sky like a sacrifice. It had edges as sharp as she did, and he could’ve sworn that droplets of blood were whipped away with the wind. She looked as close to a...
The Earth Held Its Breath
Winds circle and bash the verdant shorelinepicking up debris at will,Deserted harbour streets funnel raininto rivers,Driverless cars jostle for pole positionin a race no one will win.As winds abated and water seeped away,Welcome eyes smiled.Everything seemed swell,The gentle rise and fall,The peaks that lightly crashupon a landscape of varied blues and greens.The air at once sat stilllike the p...
Our storm
i'm sorry, I don't have the hands to carry you anymore.it was just there a second ago I promise. i know I held you through every storm but today, the storm was the one holding me.pulling me down, leg by leg, arm by arm. but i will grasp the rest of my air just to hold you above water. oh my darling, how I will love you even as bones.i'm sorry that we couldn't save eachother from the storm this ...
Breaking Through The Fifth Wall
It happens at once, together, like a murmuration of starlings changing course. There’s a young guy onstage, his face long and stabby and white as a...