Kelly Salasin

Category: Coming of Age

  • Graduation Day

    ~When everything around you seems to be lacking in integrity, you know what you do? You find it in yourself. You change the world right where you’re standing. (from the HBO series, Madam Secretary) Graduation day was both a celebration and an initiation. After spending years immersed in the lives of my friends, my attention…

  • The Elevator

    by Kelly Salasin in memory of my mother & friend, Bonnie Kelly Bradley, Christmas Day 1942 to September 8, 2000 Now that This is done She’ll die… Leaning against the toilet, Crouched in a Puddle of  blood Wrapped in bath towels Cold, even though it is Warm- August He breathes against me the Two of…