Poems from Jerney

Unique... I first learned to use this word to describe my family situation. "No, no, no-- you've got it all wrong! Fighting only makes us...
Shaving used to be just a razor before glass before safety pins before my nails before I still think there was a before      but my mind...
Survivor's guilt sounds like my sister getting beat in the next room for something I know I did.   That's the thing-- I did. I did not. Did...
Mama, just killed a man Put a gun against his-- Nope. It was a knife mama Put inside my stepfather’s abdomen But he deserved it. He...
By the age of nine, I knew this world was no place for me.   I learned that if a tree falls in a forrest and someone is around to hear it,...