Ink Stain
I will stain you with my ink permanently, like velvet covers the window and shadows light, you will be inexplicably drawn, enveloped,...
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- Jul 13
- 1 min
Cows on Maui
On the mountainside, cows roam unaware of potential volcano disasters. Their sweet lives of oblivious wandering makes me jealous of...
- May 11
- 1 min
Wandering Home
I wandered over the quiet green swaying grass of hillside, along fence lines with rusted wire, tiny spikes waiting to bite me over...
- Jan 12
- 1 min
Indiana January
The sky I was born under hangs grey, suspended like a crushed velvet curtain strewn with pale cotton on an early cold January day. The...
- Dec 20, 2022
- 1 min
The Crow - Banished
You have stayed too long like an unwanted houseguest perched in a dim back corner judging me in silence. I fed you the warm sustenance of...
- Nov 22, 2022
- 1 min
Ignorance Repeated
We repeat the mistakes of the past. Thin bony fingers extend from graves, wagging at us as if to say, “You should know better.” We repeat...
- Oct 28, 2022
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Empty Beaches
retreating within, the girl leaps from the tall cliff into her own world she soars, arms outstretched, over her blue ocean soul tides...
- Sep 27, 2022
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Frida
In the warm morning light, the artist sits at her easel. In constant dull pain, she strokes the brush loaded with vermillion, azure,...
- Aug 15, 2022
- 1 min
The Ghost of Alzheimer's
He is no longer himself a ghostly apparition who walks the halls confined by doors disconnected by the passage of time. Moments of...
- Jul 27, 2022
- 1 min
Tangled Moth
Music had no effect as I watched the moth twist, struggle to free itself from the tangled sheer curtains as they wafted in the glow of...
- Jun 24, 2022
- 1 min
Water, Love
I am the tree in the black and white photo reaching, leaning, straining sideways in the desert toward an unseen source of water, love. I...
- May 26, 2022
- 1 min
The Pretender
I am Blue Thunder galloping down the mountain. I am Hot Wind blowing the clouds dry before they can open. I am Lighting Thrower rumbling...
- Apr 26, 2022
- 1 min
Open Road
Under the same moon birth, death, love, hate, right, wrong - life all stand before us. It is just mileage that separates the sameness of...
- Mar 25, 2022
- 1 min
Career Hitchhiker
I have chosen jobs as a hitchhiker travels, getting into whatever car stops, and riding until I am cast out to start thumbing again.
- Feb 23, 2022
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Truth
You are not your wounds. They puncture, bleed, scab and heal leaving you wiser. You are not your scars. They mark you permanently, making...
- Jan 27, 2022
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Cold Snap
At 20 below, ice forms long clear crystalline fingers that grip frigid eaves, knuckled talons of winter. Snow becomes pale grit light as...
- Dec 6, 2021
- 1 min
No Man's Wife
I am no man’s wife, the mother of no child. I live as a single candle burns, alone on the windowsill, a pinprick of light in a dark...
- Nov 10, 2021
- 1 min
Envy
In early winter, I walk the river’s edge as snow falls silent as a dove’s wing on the mountain. Scattered flakes whirl, lifted by the...
- Sep 8, 2021
- 1 min
In Love with Uncertain Future
What began as a summer encounter now drags itself inexorably through a painful slog toward an uncertain end. I see what you cannot say...
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