Odessa Avianna Perez4 Ways Your Anger Works In Your FavorIt’s 9 am and my carbon monoxide alarm starts to go off. I’m in my pajamas, coffee has yet to be made, and a loud, sharp 4-beep alarm is…Nov 11, 2022Nov 11, 2022
Odessa Avianna PerezCelebrating Simone Biles’ “No” — this is what self-care and boundaries look likeJul 28, 2021Jul 28, 2021
Odessa Avianna PerezHarbin — My Body RemembersThere is a gentle mist standing where the smoke and fire once raged, creating a mirage of what was, this cooling sister of smoke. Both…Jan 20, 2019Jan 20, 2019
Odessa Avianna PerezSifting through the veilsThe veils are thick between you and I. After a month apart, there is a lot for me to sift through. Although your form is now within my…Jan 8, 2019Jan 8, 2019
Odessa Avianna PerezReturning of the light — a Christmas StoryOn December 7, 2017, the 2 year anniversary (to the day) of being mugged at gunpoint, my car was broken into for the 3rd time. I made the…Dec 24, 2018Dec 24, 2018
Odessa Avianna PerezThe ambivalence of air, the expression of earth, the edge of heavenThe sun is setting on Valencia St and no one can tell if it’s summer or fall. The breeze holds with it an ambivalence, as if the changing…Dec 14, 2018Dec 14, 2018
Odessa Avianna Perezmay we travel deeper and widermay we travel deeper and wider each spiraling pathway towards our one. loveDec 11, 2018Dec 11, 2018
Odessa Avianna PerezSee your body heal itselfIt started as a pain in your back, when, you cannot remember. It’s been carrying you or you’ve been carrying it for so long you don’t know…Dec 10, 2018Dec 10, 2018
Odessa Avianna PerezMy heart is re-memberingMy heart is re-membering. A patchwork quilt assembled with hurried, misshapen stitches, flung together in a life of just-keep-going. These…Dec 9, 2018Dec 9, 2018
Odessa Avianna Perezthe full spectrum belovedThe most beautiful sunsets arrive in my eyes this time of year. The kind of amazing that brings gasps through open mouths, wind whistling…Aug 19, 2018Aug 19, 2018