2003

Heroes

I realized I respected her, loved her, because as my lips spoke her name and my mind wrapped around the words, my voice came softer, cupping the syllables that held volumes of images and words. "Annie Dillard," "Alice Walker," "Jeanette Winterson," "Ayn Rand"-- the list goes on.

I read them like the bible, ate them like fire, pressed them under my fingernails hoping that I could be half the woman, half the writer.