2016

growth

Posted on: June 16, 2016 Last updated on: April 10, 2018 Written by: ishara Categorized in: Cultivating Softness

10 minute free write (with a little post-time editing); prompt- growth; Feb 12, 2016; When I was a child, I fell a lot. Everyone told me it was from growing so fast;…

Witch Woman

Posted on: June 11, 2016 Last updated on: April 10, 2018 Written by: ishara Categorized in: Cultivating Softness

Anoint yourself daily. Draw strength from sun and stars, draw strength from soil. Cover every surface with prayers and blessings. Draw strength. From sun and stars learn mantras to ward off maljoe…

Womanhood

Posted on: June 3, 2016 Last updated on: April 10, 2018 Written by: ishara Categorized in: Cultivating Softness

pouring all your love into a broken vessel and slicing your hands on the shards

Re: tabanca

Posted on: April 13, 2016 Last updated on: April 10, 2018 Written by: ishara Categorized in: Cultivating Softness

re: tabanca It will always surprise. It will come like a thief, in the night in old love songs like waves in full tide like the dull ache of a bruise. And…

archipelago

Posted on: March 11, 2016 Last updated on: April 10, 2018 Written by: ishara Categorized in: Cultivating Softness

we, the dis- joint- ed children of stolen peoples living on stolen lands claiming and re-claiming until we can find ourselves again whole

Posted on: March 11, 2016 Last updated on: April 10, 2018 Written by: ishara Categorized in: Cultivating Softness

I enter this year bawling like an infant peeling away dry, numb, skin tender and pink beneath– but feeling.