I'll Fly Away

Speak because your voice is currency, and their comfort isn't worth your silence.

Most of what I know I've learned from falling, from placing the brighter side of my hands against the earth and pressing until vertical. The ground has taught me more about flight than the sky ever could.

Yes, I'm fine; yes, I'm always fine. No, I'm not just saying that so you'll leave me alone.

Crickets have been known to eat their own wings, and I too have a tendency to destroy what helps me get off the ground

Now, preschools are having Active Shooter Drills. Now, more high schools are installing metal detectors. Now, we’re talking about giving guns to the teachers so they can protect the students, but that’s like burning all the trees in the spring so the forest fire won’t take them in the summer. America, this is climate change.

hope the camera gods bless you with a steady hand great lighting, the perfect angle, and enough storage space to save the results. May you snap the picture at the right time, eyes open and smiling with your entire face. Months from now, I hope you stumble across the picture and you are ambushed by your own radiance.

How beautiful it is to grind yourself into sand, offer the grain of you to anyone willing to listen, hoping they will carry your debris into places you'll never go.