Friday, January 29, 2021

untie

when i realized 
the power 
of an untethered heart
it was so easy
to let loose
my own
and give it away.

~

RN

Tuesday, January 26, 2021

she grew

she grew
comfortable with mirrors
when it didn't matter
what she looked like on the outside
but if who
she was on the inside
was someone she could live with.

~

RN

Thursday, January 21, 2021

auras

auras lining up
worlds unfolding
colors glowing
tapping into all that
potential
love and patience
on your wings.

~

RN

Saturday, January 16, 2021

comfort of home

"i just wanna go home,"
the wail of an overtired,
loving child
her comfort and delight
in the rooms
within these walls.

~

RN

Friday, January 15, 2021

winter day

as cold as icicles
as freezing as wind
cutting through the cuffs
and zippers
of my coat
is this day.

~

RN

Tuesday, January 12, 2021

in a sense

curled up in a sense
of relief
and overwhelm
just a few breaths
away.

~

RN

Thursday, January 7, 2021

carts

sometimes your shopping cart
disappears
sometimes you don't have
what you need
when you need it
or so you think
until you go outside and find
there are many shopping carts
and people willing to help you.

~

RN

Sunday, January 3, 2021

bookmark

i put a receipt there
a place to hold
a page i should've torn
but kept going back to
longing to remember
needing to relive
those words
one more time.

~

RN

slow down

when the horse hooves
clatter through my mind
the highway that turns
circuitous
I stop
and breathe
and find a place to sit down
the reins wearing a permanent
groove in my hands.

~

RN

Blister

it helped when you stopped
picking at it
and then i was allowed
to heal
the abrasion of one too many
'i can't do this'-es
leaving my heart raw.

~

RN

the train

they say that you are a
passenger
eyes wide
windows
for the separating
the paring
of leaf from idea
word from binoculars
and fluid as the train
upon its tracks.

~

RN

Saturday, January 2, 2021

dreaming

dreaming is a dip in water
a tiptoe in puddle
three thousand leagues
deep, so easy
to lose oneself in the memory
liquid covering,
your skin
on my lips.

~

RN

Friday, January 1, 2021

the wonderful thing

when you stopped being afraid
of what you wrote
or what you said
stopped juding the output
by the input
stopped needing approval
for this next step
looked at the wonderful thing
you created.

~

RN

Wednesday, December 30, 2020

light, leaking...

lightleakinglikelooseleaves
memoriesmostlymademore
potentpouringpainpaintingpictures
eachemptyexchange
askinganotheranswera
flashlightflickering
imissyouimissyouimissyou...

~

RN

Tuesday, December 29, 2020

for a slice

what kind of people
are we
if someone can still
walk into a store
wearing layers of unwashed
their life in the bags
on their shoulders
their unshaven faces
hanging, nervous
waiting
in the deli line
for sliced cheese...

~

RN 

Monday, December 28, 2020

fire in her soul

and she ran
though there was no fire
to tend to
the madness in her
soul
scorching every
gentle surface
counting her losses
and thankful
for the flatline of the road.

~

RN

Sunday, December 27, 2020

big trees

there is
the ache of big trees
left standing
alone
when you know
they used to 
intertwine
with sisters 
and their brothers.

~

RN

Saturday, December 26, 2020

as if, on wheels

everything is changing
as if, on wheels,
the ever-spinning
constant flux
of end and beginning
roulette playing
on butterfly
wings.

~

RN

Thursday, December 24, 2020

only by feeling

you cannot teach
respect through shame
or sincerity through guilt
forced 
into action.
only by feeling,
communicating, and empathizing
can we change
the situation.

~

RN

Monday, December 21, 2020

new pages

let your new
pages
be filled
with imagination
dreaming
all of the impossible
into possible
and the magical
into truth.

~

RN