Octopus Blues

There,
at the bottom of being,
where the water that makes
this planet a world
   is the color of spacetime

the octopus —

There is No Way Back

How can five small pills be so powerful?

The fear I felt before I took my first low dose of a chemotherapy drug was real. I felt very nervous, had read up on it, had researched it mercilessly. The internet, as always, helped me to picture all kinds of horror scenarios in my head. The printed list of potential side effects that came with the medication didn’t help much either: Possible death. I chuckled when I read it out loud. My husband didn’t think it was humorous at all.

Still Trying!

“if
the ocean
can calm itself,
so can you.
we
are both
salt water
mixed with
air.”

― Nayyirah Waheed

Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday

The Ladies of the Redlight District

Years ago, when I was 18 years old, at a time when cell phones and GPS systems weren’t existing, I drove all by myself from Austria down to the South of Italy. It was just me, my little car and our old farm dog -a security measure my Grandmother had insisted on.