β€œDistance doesn’t separate people. Silence does.”

β€” Jeff Hood

Blythe Baird, from If My Body Could Speak; β€œConcerns from a hot-boxed jeep”

[Text ID: β€œHow do I stop / carrying everything / that had ever / happened to me?”]

Blythe Baird, from If My Body Could Speak; β€œThe way I was taught to love”

[Text ID: β€œHalf daughter, / half apology, all fire and the wrong kind of love.”]