by Laura Lentz | Dec 4, 2021 | EPIGENETICS: Mothers, Fathers & Ancestors, I AM THE HERO OF MY JOURNEY, LOVE & SEXUALITY
I could tell you I loved him, but that would be a lie. I could tell you my parents asked me not to marry so young, that they wanted me to get an education and travel and know myself first. but that would be another lie. We were in my childhood kitchen that always...
by Laura Lentz | Dec 4, 2021 | EPIGENETICS: Mothers, Fathers & Ancestors, LOVE & SEXUALITY
This is for you and all our writers and readers who know words will call them home. The poem is unfinished and untitled, just like my relationship to my deceased marmi. It’s never too late to explore the all of our mamas: I know how long you have been waiting...
by Laura Lentz | Nov 13, 2021 | EPIGENETICS: Mothers, Fathers & Ancestors, OXYGEN: Poetry for Survival & Thriving
For five years my mother couldn’t get pregnant. Being pregnant was fashionable in the late fifties, Having a home and a husband and dinner every night with meat, a starch and a canned vegetable was in vogue. Having babies was fashionable, like purses that exactly...
by Laura Lentz | Nov 8, 2021 | LOVE & SEXUALITY, OXYGEN: Poetry for Survival & Thriving
Years ago, when I was deep in relationship with my first love, who would die three years after this story, I was a hummingbird living in an intoxicating city. Even the smell of the exhaust fumes of the cars thrilled me, it was all heady – the museums, the...
by Laura Lentz | Nov 6, 2021 | LOVE & SEXUALITY, WRITING AT RED LIGHTS
The Writing Thing He said you could be a great writer If you didn’t write about the body and sexuality, But the thing written is a sexual thing, Words lick and are tongues, open mouths, they tell truths some have died to speak. Even me walking into your store that...
