What Is Ours To Carry

Tomorrow's virtual retreat, a little poetry, how to unsubscribe from emails like you've been alive for 5 minutes and have never used email, my TED talk, and a book and a movie that both made me weep.

What Is Ours To Carry

On my body I carry ghosts.

I don’t recommend getting close.

You’ll want to ask how they became

dead people on my shoulders.

They will not answer.

I speak for them as they are mine to carry.

Etchings to mark times I was bad,

so many, my heart the shape of rivers.

Bad in the way we say Dunno when we do.

Want was missing not the how.

Filthy…