We build these boundaries along the way despite being born, like me, on perfect ground. Sometimes our voyage can lead us astray. We flee our homes for hearts that don’t betray when our fate drifts and carries us aground. We build these boundaries along the way. We thrive where the sun torches skin and clay... Continue Reading →

I let the chickens out to run free in the field and saw a cardinal trapped inside the coop I built myself from wooden posts painted green and hexagonal wire of lighter gauge. She flew fearfully from mesh to mesh crashing into the fence then tumbling back and didn’t see the open door. There was... Continue Reading →

The only witnesses who remainare the coconut palmsmy father’s father planted.They still stand, tall and thin,though their trunkshave curved with age,and entwined in their ringsof fronds, my existence,proof I lived there once,on the same landand played in the puddlesunderneath their leaves.These palms sensed my first stepsand felt my heels bear deepinto the dirt under my... Continue Reading →