Face in the Mirror: My Skin Cancer Experience.
Mohs, despite my Stooges reference, is the gold standard for skin cancer. It cuts out the carcinoma, conserves healthy skin, and has a 97% cure rate.
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To the Men in the Room: A Poem About Privilege. {poetry}
Men, take this as a lesson, what you can do with your privilege: Don’t help those who are falling do what they can do for themselves, but support them.
There’s a Little Zipper Under Your Chin. {poetry}
Let me pull that zipper down
Let me unzip your skin
Let me unzip mine too and you can step in
Let’s spend the day in each other’s skin tones
Mango Woman. {poetry}
Here I am
sweet ripe mango woman
half-wise
I will attain more wisdom
as my flesh puckers to my stone
hot wrinkly custard skin
brown from the sun
Reflections: We Are the Same, You and I.
We seemed so different on the outside. Different upbringings, lifestyles, religion, even different-colored skin. I used to look at my arm lying over your body in wonder of how different and beautiful it looked. Light against dark. But I think on the inside we always knew, we are the same, you and I.
It Rained. {poetry}
I clawed through my denim hide, muddied beyond recognition. Then the cotton casing, wet and black. I stripped completely to expose my human skin.
I spun and twirled to the ricochet of thunder booming through the valley, slinging water droplets like magic fire from my fingertips.
I skipped and ...
Unleash That Wild Thing Beneath Your Skin.
The initial spark that caused the Big Bang within my being came from a look in your eye that was molten. I’ll never forget that look. It was the first time anybody ever looked at me that way and I’ve experienced an array of the way eyes make connections. It was a look so deep it seeped through ...