The rain feels like permissionFor sweatpants and staying homeAnd letting the best I can offer right now be simple It’s how you get back upBut […]
Oops, I made a really long D&D battle
Fish monsters attack The battle takes all session It’s not over yet With Love, Natalie
Ugly Things
Something he told meThat I try to forget–how can you be a mom like this–Or some ugly variationWas I on the bathroom floor when it […]
Happy Hour
Nine years together I learn to make a cocktail We talk for four hours With Love, Natalie
Safe
Shaking outside an apartment doorI remember what’s it likeTo not feel safeTo fear going home If we all had safe harborsTo moor our weathered shipsThe […]
Sunset
The sun burns red in a hazy skyFor four minutes I watch it sink into the bayI can’t capture it in photos or wordsBut for […]
History
Standing at the beach Years of history right here Cheers to damn good friends With Love,Natalie
A lot of rain
Then there’s the rainBeating on me until I can’t seeSoaking through my socksBut I choose to walk I hear thunder over my podcastI see lighting […]
Performances
Performances. Step on the stage and dance, darling.Your body was beautiful once. Now it won’t move like it used to. The gown is too small. […]
Tonight’s D&D, a haiku
On a pirate ship Shoot, cook, breathe, learn, and gamble Then the fish attack With Love, Natalie