Tag: blood
Blood Poppies
Memory is an imperfect thing. But every year, they ask us to Remember something that doesn’t like to be looked at, something we close our eyes and try to see something that we can’t Remember[…]
Personal Response – Where There’s A Wall by Joy Kogawa
Where there’s a wall There’s always more than One Two, Three, Four. Above and below No escape No ladder No door Just iron bars and suffocating darkness that clings to you like a cloak. Laboured[…]
One Skinned Cat
Whenever she looked at the tiger pelt nailed to the wall of their summer cottage, there always was this curious feeling of guilt. Of shame. Despite the fact that it wasn’t her fault that she had[…]
Dear Homophobe
Dear Homophobe, He was 15 and terrorized. He didn’t even know what being gay meant. He prayed relentlessly to God, begging Him to fix him. A fifteen year old boy began to despise himself… God did[…]