by amba | Jan 3, 2022 | Uncategorized
I am going to be decadent tonight I will curl up in my bed and roll over on my belly I will lay there and stretch my back towards the ceiling I may drool onto the pillow a little You can’t do that sleeping on your back I may sleep this way all night on my belly...
by amba | Jan 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
I own my age so few women do I lived every grey hair each wrinkle and the crackling of blood vessels and veins like sponged pottery and the squishy middle that carried babies I live in comfortable clothes the days of fashion and trying to look cute or sexy or...
by amba | Dec 29, 2021 | Uncategorized
He sincerely looked into my eyes “You will write a book one day” and then I hear all the unspoken words You will publish a book It will be wonderful I am proud of you You are brilliant and creative I love you
by amba | Dec 27, 2021 | Uncategorized
Love letters in a glass jar on my desk All 26 Twenty-six typewriter hammers in a jar on my desk Love letters Each letter of the alphabet I wanted to have them I like strange curiosities like that Pieces of the printer world Tools of the writer I watched as he...
by amba | Dec 26, 2021 | Tattoos
Poetry and Tattoos They are so similar Ways we humans capture a memory A person An emotion A moment A love We write them down We brand them on our bodies Things of our mind, heart, and soul We sometimes regret their permanence after we imprint them with ink Whether...