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Fran Tilly’s Apple Cake by Antonina Guarino Listen to my soon-to-be-published Children’s book. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download MP3 version

She’s a woman who learns to hold-carry and balance-give and take-in love. A woman who treasures, who looks to the limits in the sky and notices the pennies in her path. And realizing she might just not know she learns to sort through first hand love for second-hand pieces feeling for heaviness. At least this pile’s nicer than [...]

where to find the words now no idea where how heart’s broken and just tryin to breathe. I see a happy hug a teasing love a simple sailboat heading out to sea the ebb and flow come and go and hope’s the sail to see my lucky love our wave’s above the sun, the sky, [...]

If all words surrounding this issue weren’t clumsy and cliche If talking weren’t like a strange game, Like trying to balance Seashells in a box filled with sand Without friction or grit And if all requests were being granted I’d ask For all words surrounding this issue To cradle me like the happy swing of a rocking [...]

Maria Last night I went to bed and dreamt of you. You weren’t my younger sister in my dream And she was not your mother, only mine. You held an empty box. Its space was like The pit in my stomach. Like when we fight: Two girls, an empty box, and no ribbon To hold [...]