Of all the violence I have known in my life I have never known violence like the violence I have spoken to myself, - Andrea Gibson

Poetry is the pen-and-paper version of paying wondrous attention.

Lately I've been thinking about who I want to love, and how I want to love, and why I want to love the way I want to love, and what I need to learn to love that way, and how I need to become to become the kind of love I want to be. And when I break it all down, when I whittle it into a single breath, it essentially comes out like this: before I die, I want to be somebody's favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe.

Do you ever feel like the best of you is something you’re still hoping to grow into?