Don’t bring a loving family to a broken one. It’s like bringing a knife to a gun fight.
–from “Hydrangeas,” flash fiction published today in Ellipsis Zine
Tag: grief
Fingernails (new poem)
my psychotherapy teacher taught me to counsel
with his fingernails…
a deliberate inattention,
staring at my nails as if they were
the most interesting thing in the world;
giving space for a woman with wounds
to unwrap them, carefully,
without accidentally being touched…
Anna Kander 