Autodidactpoet

Autodidact: (n) a self-taught person. Poet: (n) a person who writes poetry. Autodidactpoet: (n) A blog full of thoughts from a self-taught writer.

Saturday, May 6, 2017

Woman Body

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Woman body knows Spanx, push-up bras, and high-heeled shoes are designed to keep us small. Knows women used to faint on couches from cors...
Sunday, March 5, 2017

A History in Music

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A History in Music What if the songs we hear become pieces of us? When we love them hard enough, notes become dislodged, float insi...
Monday, January 9, 2017

Underbelly

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Sometimes the poem is born from the   underbelly where the fire lies. I will write from the place where broken turns broken ...
Monday, January 2, 2017

A New Year Poem in 3 Acts

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I.       Resolutions Sometimes I wonder about the cost of being human. I wonder if I made a covenant with a divine being I have sin...
Tuesday, December 27, 2016

Small

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Small There are so many ways of dying to believe yourself alive. Bottles meet lips fists meet wall blades meet skin food meet...
Tuesday, December 13, 2016

The one with all the signs

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Lately, I find myself feeling as though I am standing on the edge of a precipice.  In many ways, I feel I have spent a long time standing o...
Monday, December 5, 2016

On questions and capes: A poem about post-election survival

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On questions and capes: A poem about post-election survival The cashier at the pharmacy verifies my name, address, date of birth, lo...
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"My continuing passion is to part a curtain, that invisible shadow that falls between people, the veil of indifference to each other's presence, each other's wonder, each other's human plight." Eudora Welty
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