Dear Self, Remember that one time, you were biking up a huge hill and you just kept telling yourself, “Slow and steady, slow and steady, just keep pedaling slow and steady and you *will* make it!” And remember how you decided to adopt that mantra in your life to keep yourself focused and encouraged–even though [...]

~Jenuine Would you still love me… Would you love my scars– my discolored, gnarled, footprints of pain? Would you love my shadows– the ones that darken my eyes every now and then? Would you love the cluttered corners and messy closets of my soul? Would you love the insecurities that tag along with my confidence? [...]

~Bethany Lauren Grigsby To my potential-but-not-guaranteed or wholly essential future male life-partner I come with a proposal That if we commit to walking down an aisle of marriage We commit to walking in a certain kind of life First order of business: Let’s take an axe and chop down that white picket fence they told [...]

~Kathryn Jackson I have a dream we’re in Barcelona.  You’re yelling in the back of a cab with your hair all dolled up like John Lennon, your heart pounding so hard like the whole rest of the universe has capitulated to atrophy.  You’re slurring your words and the second syllable of “Barcelona” tumbles past your [...]

–Jenuine To we who are searching… for our words for our song for our poetry for our selves There are seasons of passing through deserts dry of crawling– parched and peaked– through wastelands barren And I have realized something: that while in this place of desolation no oasis did I find or rather for no [...]