Late morning O'clock Wrapped in flannel sheets  as soft as my little cat's belly chilled by the outside Winter all untucked and naked...

As my troubles subside, As my frightened dog mellows and behaves, As my friends draw lovingly closer, the world around me is evolving in...

He was blonde but darker once revealed. No threads could cover his indelicacy.

The wind comes in the window with a wispy, low sound like breath rushing down a flute making an off-key sound. Something is not quite...

We are both yellow, tarnished from our deceit.

It never comes as black or white. It comes not in colors either. It appears as an endless spectrum of kinetics with no visible extremes....

Nothing felt right, so I painted my nails. As they were drying, I felt accomplishment. "I did something." Once dried, there was simply...

Discard your feigned moral compass and let me take you to places that reside in fantasy and play. We will leave behind all pretense and...

Your politics bled on the cloth of the table I set for you so I serve you a meal of reason and suggest you to take your hand off your...

I stood by you seeing your starched blue and green shirt, dirty from time, as stiff as your mind and soiled from your eagerness. Too...

My “I love you more” is not a comparison not just a phrase not to appease not to simplify It is “I love you more”… than any fleeting...

My hair was dyed auburn red, curled and sprayed. My eyes colored, lashes long, face painted like the girls shown pretty-perfect in...

Your eyes, avert and shy. Next time, look at me. I want to know your worth. Your hair, tied and tight. Let it down. I want to see you...

You are as dear to me as the sight of a lemon tree adorning the shades of Belize bright as the Caribbean Sea isles so colorful just as...

He asked me, "What are your dreams, your dares, your designations?"  I told him I don't let anyone know that much about me. I asked him,...

A Poet's Conundrum Rhymes and riddles paint depictions down the pages. Plain is all they want. The Irony The bright sky above exposes our...

The head. The heart. The bones. Everything aches tonight.

From whisper sings that future call a begging shared lest time would halt. Now tethered fancy from whence took flight left heart and...

It is okay if you seem like a fish out of water. Maybe you just don't swim in the mainstream.

What if I were a monk? Maybe, instead of self-deprecation, I would congratulate myself for my two days spent doing nothing, going...

What is it, this thing we call life? This breath of existence? This time to mingle in the presence of others? This time to strive to...

Have you seen him? The man with the faded tattoo? Ever since they etched his trauma on his skin, a fate branded him. Such is the case...

I saw you and thought of when we might make love. I thought of grasping your forearms, feeling you breathe heavy into my hair, bearing...

In the quiet hours, starts a humming to some sweet, melancholy song raging then to a holler when the hours are many — a cacophony of...

I feel it coming. Like the lapping edges  of the ocean  rising before the tidal waves hit. Like the whistling breeze  through my wind...

Où es-tu, Dragon Chaser? The dragon on my back hides it's fire until you look in my green eyes and dance me to that old French song. Say...

We are all yellow, tarnished from our deceit and We are all black, darkened from our misery and We are all red, bloody from our violence...

She, writer of fiction, creates her own muse to suit her fascination, to start the story. This marriage of the imagination and the...

Before the start of each day I lie in a womb, my shower, and soak. The water gallops on my head, slips through my toes, and collects in...

It is cold on the other side of contentment, so let's all hold one another 'til the warmth comes back again. The cycle will round...

They said I would not heal. They said he wouldn't either. Seeing that I did but he didn't, I had not gratitude, only perspective. The...

Jailing the innocent, Burdening the poor, Protecting the perpetrators, Proliferating the trash, Raping the innocent, Dividing the...

O wretched heart. You pull yourself apart from looking in the wrong direction. Disentangle yourself from that to which you tether....

Each day, I find myself waking in a cognitive fog — where no two thoughts come together and I sit for hours each morning in a state of...

The hallway is long The walls are all bare The doorway is closed No dinner prepared The table has nothing The bed is unkept The chairs...

Cold is sin. Warmth is part-way favorable. Scald me     and I am healed.

Your mouth vomits words and the planet erupts the medicated, then, the healers

The damp, fallen leaves create a wet, slippery muck, all giving off a bold, fragrant reminder to take in the browns yellows oranges and...

I feel this night, just as if I could hold it in my hands. Something about the feeling suggests to me I should take note. Something...

Be astounded at life anew. The birth of Spring. Overwhelm yourself at each new chance, new life, stumbling forth like the strut of a baby...

Life can be a long, hard journey. If it is,  sport Colorful Shoes. With the view of a brighter shade, life is more possible.

I took off my boots and hat and collapsed on the couch. My dog jumped up and flopped down beside me. The thud of his weight punctuated...