red wine and coastlines

darling, be sure of this:

there is no need to swallow bitter shame each time you give yourself love after all, the best any of us can promise is to try to heal those around us when we’re not sewing ourselves up

Rumors to Start About the Girl Next Door – Live on Rebelle Society

http://www.rebellesociety.com/2017/08/03/kasandracook-divine/

Rumors to Start About the Girl Next Door

They say she was raised by wolves, I hear she takes it as a compliment. and I heard she carries garden shears in her back pocket to snip flowery branches from backroads at sunrise I heard she whispers to fluttering sparrows, convinces them to land softly on her shoulders and I heard she drinks only moon-water, leaves a glass jug to soak up pale beams at midnight I heard she greets every soul with…

Giving Thanks: An Ode to Water Protectors & A Call to Arms

Grounded On knees, pouring over photographs looking like they’ve been dipped in sarsaparilla Atop plush carpet, foundation, tapped groundwater Staring into the black and white eyes of blood connections Credited with building a society, Carving it out On a map in bold—invisible, imaginary, bloody, thirsty lines I survey the bounty laid before me: A Voice that is clear and unwavering The result of…