ADOPTEE-SENSE BY AUDREY B Adoptee life as a riddlelife played out from the middle all roads winding somewhererequiring you care, share, and stare intothe sun until full moon negotiates meteorshower,can face raining…
FINE BY AUDREY B Do answers change, maturemonotonous clarifying statements pressed onto skin that somehow visibly invited …“Your parents must be saints!”“Are you adopted?”“What are you?”“Do you want to find your real parents?” ……
FAMILY VACATION BY AUDREY B Family vacation from family relationships with truth forever language absent permanence living extremes as average write the brick as a feather above the sun under…
BEGINNINGS BY AUDREY B Where do I begin?How do I end with you?“Thank you for coming together today”like all humans, I also was bornto someone, somewhere, sometime ago let me announce: “The birth…
ACCEPT BY AUDREY B What if I could accept myself? Such a simple task. Innocent asker, can someone be related to disaster? Who am I? Today's answer has journeyed so…
FRIENDS IN WRITING BY AUDREY B Yesterday I received a social media message from a virtual friend.“Hi, this is ridiculously short notice, but I am in town, wondering if you'd…
UNLOCKED By Audrey B Unlocked—Come closer, young one. What are you holding so very tightly?I struggle to answer,fists are clenched,jaw sore from biting my words, not allowing a reply. I look through…
"I LOVE YOU." YOU SHOULD. BY AUDREY B “I love you.” You should. Not because I'm great, but you can, even when I can't understand. What could be natural, you…
MEMORY BY AUDREY B Adopting parents, adapting child, “coming out of the fog,” You carried and left me there. What if I never had to enter the haze? Can I…