by breathwords | Oct 24, 2019 | Extended Exhalations
i craved the open road, the quiet peace that comes with being alone, copper sun shining on a burning horizon, the highway sound carried like whispers on the wind i wanted to travel the world, my heart much too big for this small place we would climb to the roof and...
by breathwords | Oct 4, 2019 | Bittersweet Breaths, Extended Exhalations
we eat worry with yesterday’s leftovers, anxiousness swallowed down with a bit of bread that we bought with loose change found between seat cushions years of empty pockets have left us accustomed to its stale taste it will be another long day today the poems will have...
by breathwords | Sep 29, 2019 | Extended Exhalations
words sit thick like cotton on the tongue waiting to be spun into a dress of pretty prose for strangers to wear, letters and lace to drape across the shoulders of people we will never meet, soul stories told by hands that hold tendrils of magic we move between...
by breathwords | Sep 11, 2019 | Books Teach Me to Breathe
Many authors have a way of touching the heart, but Alfa reaches deeper. She speaks to the soul. In I Needed a Viking, she reminds us of our own strength. She raises us up and readies us for battle because who better to fight for us than us. In the first section,...
by breathwords | Sep 7, 2019 | Bittersweet Breaths, Extended Exhalations
we exist in this summer haze, days trailing into nights we sit beneath midnight skies painted obsidian and aubergine, sipping on Guinness and cider and talking about life and love and the ache of it all we keep waiting on this new moon to impart its infinite wisdom,...