10/15/2024
My heart has pumped for forty years without me even asking, and you tell me to keep my elbows off the table, to use a different knife for butter.
Caterpillars don't grow wings. They disappear completely, remerge with hieroglyphics at their backs.
Meet me there, in this world, where caterpillars disappear themselves, and
Teardrops can be conjured out of thoughts.
We are all magicians here.
So lay your head upon my shoulder.
Tears do not run out any more than kisses do...so kiss me.
The body is a wizard, and rain today is pounding on the streets, and there is air inside our lungs as ancient as the first oak.
And fireflies make light out of their abdomens.
And you, you once fed through your belly button. So do not tell me not to laugh. One teaspoon of a neutron star could balance the entire human population.
Once upon a time, inside my savage skin in a room made of blood and luck I grew a whole human child from compliments and kisses who now stands as tall as me.
Gigantic.
And every day chameleons are just changing color.
And flowers, stronger than cement burst through cracks in pavement where man made explosions once obliterated every living thing.
So do not tell me to stop dreaming as if it's too late. Our eyes, from the very second we are born, know exactly how to form water, out of hope.
-holliepoetry
There are never any words to express the courage and trust it takes a mother to have another baby after the loss of a child. To witness and share in this experience is beyond words.
Welcome to the world baby Griffin. Born a day before his sister's second heavenly birthday. You will always be remembered baby Martha. Thank you Stephani De Azevedo for being part of our team, so I could throw my daughter's baby shower and be present in both spaces. ❤️