untie

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

~

RN

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

auras

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

~

RN

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

winter day

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

~

RN

in a sense

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

~

RN

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

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

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

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