Nothing surprises an immigrant more then someone speaking their language— be it someone from the same country as them, or not. If familiarity had a language, for me, it would be Portuguese. The sing-song tone of it; the altos and lows and letters and punctuations that don’t exist in any other language I’ve studied. I’ve studied four.  So I’m in this coffee shop, right? And I’m nervous; I’m rea...

I admit it has brought me much tension To learn that you vacillate between us.Today I want to change your intentions;Sensing you think this way feels treasonous.I see you as you do in my mirror,I can see your attempt to look away.I know one thought suffices to triggerYour unyielding want to watch you decay – It’s a two-sided brain discrepancy – You will not walk forward with your hatred. I list...

Breathe in,                               and out.Let the heavy salt wash over you,             corrode you.                                Let your joints lock up.Do not move for a year,                                                     a decade,                                                                           a century.This is okay,             this is how it was meant to be,Before...

He is like honey.Eyes brown, speckled gold, like honey.Softness as soft as pillow sleeves.His words weave together,spinning sentences into lullabies,hands that make me dance to their lilting tone. I cut in careless and callously staccato. Incredulous all the same- at him. We speak, sometimes in harmonies andsometimes not. His low murmurs, my ill placed words,our symmetry is still found,we rest ...

These days I am finding that the garden we have, and the woodlands near our house, are what is keeping me sane. Without them, I don’t know what I would have done during this pandemic. And yet, it’s taken an event of this magnitude to slow my life down enough for me to really appreciate what we have, and to connect with it on a personal level. Before lockdown, I imagine many people walked the da...

As I sit here enjoying the rainIn my carThat I'm paying offWith the weed that's been paying offAnd the music that's been playing onI can't help but hear of Youknocking on my memory Alive in my third eyeYou remind me that- I have to do something with where I've been placed in this life. Thank you I know you still enjoy her too. As she gave birth to you. But I know you too have come to grips-Gav...

WellYou acknowledge itYou accept itAnd you feel You feel itYou allow yourself to peelYou see yourself for realAnd you feel. You must feel. 10 minutes20 days5 years laterYou still feel You cryYou wailYou apologize to yourselfYou kiss yourselfYou hold yourselfYou remind yourself how far you've comeYou breatheAnd breatheAnd breatheAnd catch your breathAnd you move forwardReady to help to yourself...

Shhh...listenCan you see them glisten?Those voices, do you hear those voices?Asking if you made all the right choicesIf only there was a way to figure it out,Must I live through this to see what its about?Lost within the countless what ifs,Wondering if I'd be full of blissCould I be more miserable than this?Or perhaps these moments I will missEverything is so uncertain,The choice is mine, shall...

It is a fire burning on a windy daySmoke heading up to the clouds Eyes closed on an open sky Heartbeats on its prime Faster and faster The heat getting more and more consuming Him trying to slow the time down Her trying to be the best game in town Both trying to get the best out of the moment Something not to be forgotten Hands on her hips It is a chest to chest game She closes her fingers behi...

     no one has ever gotten it right      no one will ever get it right      I have tried anyhow

because you are divorcedbecause you knew love when it was freshbecause you enjoyed her morning breathbecause it was hard to play pretend because she wore a sleeveless nudebecause you met him the night she made dinnerbecause she was a good church girlbecause you saw her there every Sunday because you blushed when you undid her brabecause she wore unforgettable on her lipsbecause she was hot when...

     no one has ever gotten it right      no one will ever get it right      I have tried anyhow