In Fort Myers, the weather doesn’t change much. Despite this, my grandmother will always tell you about the sun, how it chars your skin red as a valentine. How the birds, paying no mind to the humidity, will sing throughout the persistent Florida summers. How even the rain brings no sympathy from the heat. Every […]
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The year cancer floods my grandfather’s lungs I unspool myself on the dinner table and let my body decay in the open air I wring my hands in blood write his name glowing sangria on my skin take it all in, fist-first, fire-spitting-hair-flaming-first Sinew by sinew I watch myself rot and decompose into wooden earth […]
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December 20, 2017, marked one year since my grandfather passed away. The past year has been a journey of first denial, grief, then guilt, and forgiveness. I wanted to share this with all of you in the hopes that it will help some of you when you experience the same thing — because it will […]
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You came to the house with the rest of the family, sporting your usual smile white, fixed dentures. The moist air snuck in with you as the sun gently melted into the maple trees. You carried a mass of palm fronds in your left hand, loosely gripped, aware of their fragile state. Your plaid shirt […]
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Dear Daddy’s Daddy, This feels a bit weird, but stick with me. I want to thank you for the life that I live. I’ve heard about your life story for years, and there are lessons that I am trying to follow. First, wow. You had a lot of courage to leave your family and country […]
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