so this is orinoco flow. i don’t know where this will take me,

or what you will get out of this.

i’m once, twice, and three times the lady,

beware love, i have more than just claws.

maybe a little more than dangerous;

prowess, i’m  doing what i do best;

be a myself, which is:

a poet, a lover, a fighter,

an artist, a writer, a daughter,

a sister, a laugher, an explorer,

a scientist, a child, a teenager,

an elder woman.

My Eyes Are A Road

i’m near, with warm breath

and staring up

in my closet space

as i speculate

life—

i will understand

why you don’t

see or hear

or see that:

i am a girl

i’m not invincible

she –

breaths upon the winds

and makes small hearts

to remember all those lost

even the ones

she didn’t know.