Poetry

Open up your jaw, In such and such. A serpentine fashion. Blue pill awaits. Your trembling mouth.

I want to write a love poem for the girls who have been branded with, “Borderline.” I want to write a love poem for the...

I bring a small basket of flowers for my friend in the psych unit, the nurse buzzes me in. She silently yanks the plastic card-holder, then chides me, It has a pointy end. My friend tells me later, “No one gets flowers here.”

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall Humpty Dumpty had a great fall He shattered in pieces Then trauma ensued So we called several healers Who claimed that they knew They...

Your big toe gave you away. It wiggled and that meant foot rub please, Dad. Your eyes were closed, but I could feel the vibes all the way from...

Sad, mad & feeling so defeated.. From this life long ago I retreated.. I long to come back .. I long to start fresh… A new day maybe?...

A schizo still causing a commotion long after being corrected by the law, I, a jaded boozer, long unemployed, after waking where madmen drown waiting for a fair...

I wish you had tried to understand what had happened to me, but in the end, you lacked empathy. I tried to convey to you...

How long does it take to totally change your life? One instant. How long does it take to turn hatred into love? One instant. How long does it...

And so, a new morning begins. The same way. Every day. For over 27 years now. Fear. Fear the police will break down my door....

Dear Doctor, Can we please rewind, slip back in time? To the first time that we spoke. You say you don’t remember me It’s no trouble, Let’s refresh your memory I’m...

Battered and bloody locked up locked down in your broken down hallway “where is the exit?” I ask “Its in your hand” says the nurse “the little yellow pill” “Take it...

All is the self The world where it is felt What’s around what’s within Simple the mind of which integrates let be without To listen when it is loud Less...

Mad women Sad women Neglected And not accepted Our experiences of child abuse and suicidal ideation can’t possibly be connected We are said to be “crazy, hysterical, and abnormal,” And...

It is a beautiful day. The Sun is out; not a cloud in the sky. Yet I am in the Depths of Darkness where...

self-portrait as frankenstein’s monster we are mortal beings. you can’t destigmatize a condition constructed on a foundation of bigotry. environmental stimulus incites evolutionary response: emotion, nature’s behavior-motivation...

I’m peeling off the labels, The adjustment disorders, the bipolar disorder, I’m peeling off the labels, the borderline - the avoidant - the emotionally unstable personality disorders. I’m peeling off the labels, to find ME, MEEEE that’s hidden.under.all.these.labels!

one day we may all come to see that the way I treat you, I treat me it’s disguised from our eyes and operates energetically we don’t...

I’d like to work with you. To appreciate your versions. And not to have to defend myself Against them. Please let your version of treating me Incorporate ideas of...

And it befell on one mundane Monday morn That trainee Hailey Meersheimer (rank M3) Began her first shift in the psych ward; the pall Was looming in...

Forgiven, a sonnet -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I don't know how to write down my request or where it has to go to find my boy. I hope while drifting up...

I really find it such a stigma That men to me are an enigma, (That, greatly to my consternation, I just cannot make conversation.) Yes, though I call...

I need to be loved, As a child, Who will never be left, I need to be loved as a woman, There's an empty hole, In my heart that needs to be filled

I won't be The right type Of victim. I won't be the Quiet type Of victim.

Love we shared with exquisite tenderness With the Dr’s scripts has long since vanished. They say it wasn’t my responsibility Not guilty because of acute insanity. Yet they...