Wednesday, the small joys,Like a partial request. Smile.Dig the trenches deep. With Love, Natalie
Rest
I push at the bags under my eyesDark and swollenI keep expecting to wake upBut on another night of little sleepThe heavy head and fogged […]
Lin & Cara
Infinite timelinesWhere our lives crash togetherBreak apart, or never touch The forking paths, the goodbyes we might have saidIf we didn’t choose each other instead […]
Fool’s Spring
The rain on the roof The mud caking my shoes, this Is the start of spring With Love, Natalie
Nurture
She calls it paper pregnantThat unique waiting periodFor hopeful adoptive parentsNo nine-month timerNo knowing when(or if) She says to treat it like a pregnancyNurture your […]
Heartbreaks
In response to heartbreak, here’s what I turn to:A best friend who shares her life with meA glass of red wine, or two, Mondays be […]
PSA: The Danger of a $20 Heating Pad
A year or more agoI spent twenty dollarsOn an electric heating padTo keep on my lap What a fine ideaA center of warmth all day […]
60
You count the years forwardI’ll count backwardWe’ll meet in the middle She tells me when I am too young to rememberBut I remember And here […]
After Work Run
Sometimes, after the long, long meetingsAny question makes me burst into tearsWhen I’m off-camera, at my deskLaughing at myself while all that pent up emotionSpills […]
Potatoes
From the 2007-2008 poetry archives . . . I once wrote a poem for my brother’s English assignment. We all thought it was very funny […]