“Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I’m gazing at a distant star. It’s dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago. Maybe the star doesn’t even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.” ~Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun Continue reading Sometimes….
I didn’t want to believe What we believe in those rooms: That we are blessed, letting go, Letting someone, anyone, Drag open the drapes and heave us Back into our blinding, bright lives. ~Tracy K. Smith, exerpt from The Speed of Belief I love Tracy K. Smiths book “Life On Mars” and keep it, along with two or three others, on my bedside table where I can easily find it and read and reread the beautiful words inside. I like this passage. Sometimes we need a little help dragging open the drapes to let in the creative light. This week … Continue reading Open the Drapes
BONG. BONG. BONG…………..beep! I’ve forgotten how to sleep all I can think is scrambled eggs and biscuits Beep! Beep!! Beep!!! I rub my feet together but sleep won’t come Are 3 beeps more urgent than 1? _____________________ I spent last night in the hospital with a loved one where I got about 45 minutes of sleep all night. This morning I feel zombified but, on the bright side, I wrote three poems and began a short story/flash fiction during those sleepless hours. This one is all about last night. Poem shared on dVerse Poet’s Pub, an online community where poets … Continue reading Telemetry, 3rd Floor
“Each day the storm clouds were opening like great purple flowers and pouring out their dark thunder. Each nightfall, the storm was laid down on their houses like a burden the day had carried.” — Eudora Welty (The Wide Net And Other Stories) Continue reading Storm Clouds
Tenacity has salt and pepper eyebrows with a life of their own, his brain runs faster than his mouth, words tumble out falling consonents over vowels, impaling themselves on spikey exclamation points, snagging on commas and dragging ellipses.Tenacity’s eyebrows struggle to keep up with his mouth, each black hair straining against its follicle, eager to run the obstacle course, sprinting over the spikey points and hopscotching through the ellipses, persuing the riotous words but the white hairs, ah, the white hairs lie with confidence cool and calm because they know how Tenacity earned his name and that soon all these … Continue reading Tenacity’s Eyebrows
The day began in tears yet ended up in contentment Was it the sense of accomplishment at the end of a busy day or the surprise of your thoughtfulness? i don’t care to analyze. I just rejoice. Continue reading
Look into my face and you’ll see the same ole same ole little heart beating with the fierceness of a hummingbird’s wings Continue reading Homage
I still have your oak leaf pressed in a book between yellowing pages While in the yellowing pages of my memory lyrics still sometimes swirl, “close your eyes and think of me and soon I will be there…”, as pages of gleaming metal and bright paint turn, BSA, Triumph, Honda, Suzuki fingertips lightly grazing, hard cherry candy shared between not-quite-touching lips hidden in an overhead compartment of rumpled quilts that smell of miles traveled over sand, desert, high sweet meadows, to red hills and dirt roads lined with pine trees and wide silence You question my loyalty as she lies … Continue reading Wood Hill
Unzip your heart. Set free each tiny metal tooth from its narrow-lipped prison. Let your lamentations escape with each deliberate click. Release and expand. Allow the dark garnet fluid to flow free, a cheek-blushed pink . Continue reading {Burst}
she threw away her black stilettos she stopped using eye cream at night her eyebrows went untweezed her eyelashes uncurled she cut her fingernails short and didn’t wear polish she didn’t have her teeth whitened or her hair dyed she shunned tattoos and piercings and cat eye makeup she disappeared into translucence thumbing her nose at the cliff ___________________________ Shared on dVerse Poets Pub. Continue reading Her Skin Fits Like a Glove
