Gift ideas 2015 (ideas, like people, die if we don't fight for them) -Kim

-Hannah

Zeta

Subtleties I never knew
I'll never fully understand

Years spent, aching for
A word, a sigh, something true

Endlessly grasping for what's gone
Aching for what's been lost so long

To feel something more than this
Emptiness of desperation

-Kim

-Hannah

fifty-one 

Kim

-Hannah

Another Life -Kim

-Hannah

birthday

smoker's cough

august

-Kim

walking down a gentle hill on rogers ave

a boy gets out of a black cab  

his mom carries a tambourine in a paper bag

because on this block there are churches

store fronts with handmade signs, 

monumental buildings that look new,

minimal design, a matte sliver cross on a teal background

& signs that ask

"have you really prayed today?"

or remind you

"jesus saves"

but then we are there

at the food sermon

and a family cooks in an open kitchen

for the entire population

big bins of kale, red beans, 

industrial rice cookers, and lamb shanks.

but it is not just food 

they say, 

"we believe in you!"

-Hannah