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Do I have a dad?

There is a man with whom I share 50% of my genetics, sure

Hazy recollections of fishing rods and McDonald’s chicken nuggets in a red pick up truck

There was a man

And there was a shadow

A monster with a voice like thunder

But I’m not sure if there was a dad

I used to bake fish every June

And pack lunches for long nights in the plow truck

I remember

And I remember a forearm the size of my head

And I remember feeling safe and feeling scared

Never knowing when the gun might go off

Is a father just a bullet?

Is a daughter just a target?

If I catch a glimpse of a child in the mirror tonight

Is she ever safe from the loaded barrel?

#happy Father’s Day everyone #no contact Father’s Day #fatherless Father’s Day #greywashpoetry #poetry #quote #tw gun #fathers day

lena-oleanderson

also a poem from the new, unreleased collection. very possibly my own all-time favourite.

#poetry #poem #words

meanwhilepoetry

My mother taught me that the longer you keep that howl trapped inside your body, the more wolf you become, but she never showed me how to let the howl out. Womanhood is also this: a violence louder on the inside than it is on the outside. Smiling when truly all you are doing is baring your teeth.

Nikita Gill, This Wild Violence Visits Again

heavensghost

Patrick Ness

A decade later

Are you down the coast?

In your house with your wife

Or maybe on your commute to work

Listening to the same album as me

Setting reminders for presale?

All these years later

The two of us

Mirroring each other

In the same time zone

But a lightyear apart

Our initial flicker

First spark

Forever just a pilot light?

I can see your purple hair

Spinning around me

And I know she’s gone

She’s just a phantom

Waltzing figment of my imagination

In your bedroom

On your hardwood floors

Hand in hand

But I can’t help but wonder

#greywashpoetry #poetry #quotes #love #quote #b #wlw #wlw poetry

mymy4442

I just read that Donald Trump and his circus took down a website called reproductiverights.gov

This was a website to help women learn about their reproductive rights in the US and to find health care.

This is absolutely disgusting so I’ll share in this post some resources in case you need them:

Links to websites of groups that study or provide information about contraception and birth control.

Browse resources for accessing abortion care: find providers, get information and advice, access abortion funds, legal advocacy and more.

Plan C is an information resource for self-managed, at-home abortion with pills. Learn how people in the U.S. are accessing abortion pill op

The National Abortion Federation (NAF) is the professional association of abortion providers in North America. We believe that women should

Call our legal Helpline if you or someone you know has been arrested or is being investigated for an abortion or pregnancy loss.

Resources Archives - Center for Reproductive Rights

https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn

#reproductive rights #reproductive health #reproductive freedom

anxeious

unfortunately i have a deep love for humanity and choose to believe conditions will improve. despite it all

eccedentesiast-skies

You’ve grown into someone who would have protected you as a child. And that is the most powerful move you made.

wedarkacademia

“I had a room to myself as a kid, but my mother was always quick to point out that it wasn’t my room, it was her room and I was merely permitted to occupy it. Her point, of course, was that my parents had earned everything and I was merely borrowing the space, and while this is technically true I cannot help but marvel at the singular damage of this dark idea: That my existence as a child was a kind of debt and nothing, no matter how small, was mine. That no space was truly private; anything of mine could be forfeited at someone else’s whim.” ― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

calellon

controversial opinion but i should get what i want sometimes

stuckinapril

are u ever sick w longing. and i don't just mean romantic longing. i mean longing for a place you barely get to see, longing for friends you no longer have, longing for feelings you might have left behind in your childhood, longing for creativity, longing for a rich and more expansive life, longing for less inhibition. longing for more passion. longing for ur life to be so incandescent w something it thaws all the frost in ur bones. are u ever so consumed w it it rends ur heart in two. do u understand me

stuckinapril

this is not just "look out the window and sigh" longing. i'm talking you're at the grocery store and you're suddenly hit w a wave of grief bc you don't have it. you don't have whatever it is you ache so badly to have. you go about your everyday life and yet it throbs under your skin moment by moment, almost as though it has a life of its own. that's the kind of longing i mean.