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Ericka Smith

Ericka Smith

wonderbread

I am sitting by a window inside Panera Bread pretending to (blend in) be studious on my sleek Dell laptop and slowly sipping my watery…

Aug 27, 2018

Aug 27, 2018

Ericka Smith

cocoon

She wraps me up in her Cocoon — loving fluids fuel my fire. I’m warm in her aura; hazel kisses placate me. This feels right.

Aug 14, 2018

Aug 14, 2018

Ericka Smith

star stuck

i mistook the twinkle in your eyes for paper planes taking off on a pitch black runway heading straight for my galaxy to look for a new…

Apr 18, 2018

Apr 18, 2018

Ericka Smith

twilight, come

i find my voice in the space between twilight and “i miss you” texts at 3 a.m. in a blue bubble that time where the here and now becomes…

Apr 18, 2018

Apr 18, 2018

Ericka Smith

Safe Travels, My Love

I have yet to find the meaning in this silence we are both passengers along for the ride beside each other making no eye contact eyes not…

Sep 21, 2017

Safe Travels, My Love

Sep 21, 2017

Ericka Smith

seasick

I have bellowed out enough sighs to fill the sails of this ship that I am blindly steering on a course uncharted destination unknown I am…

Aug 23, 2017

seasick

Aug 23, 2017

Ericka Smith

Ritual

Brush my hair 65 strokes with a pink padded brush Walk my dog four times a day Make a pot of coffee that I end up wasting Water my garden…

Aug 23, 2017

Ritual

Aug 23, 2017

Ericka Smith

Questions

I ask you Do you search for me in the aisles of the grocery store when you cannot find that thing I’d always get for you because I knew it…

Aug 23, 2017

Aug 23, 2017

Ericka Smith

growth

when the sun rises, I will use my hands as shovels scoop out and swallow earth graciousness and resiliency my soil in the hopes of making…

Aug 21, 2017

Aug 21, 2017

Ericka Smith

Seven Year Itch

We still share a bed that’s heavy like a coffin with little to no oxygen Suffocating in that space between goodbye and good morning It’s…

Jul 2, 2017

Jul 2, 2017

Ericka Smith

Ericka Smith

Truth seeker. Educator. BlaQueer enby femme. Crisis/Trauma Therapist. Activist&Advocate. Radical introvert. Cultural facilitator. Loved. #ALLBlackLivesMatter

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