Long Story Short
My short poem “Adrift” is published today on Long Story Short Ezine on their Poetry Page. Continue reading Long Story Short
The Hordes
I’m tired of the knee-jerk uneducated and uniformed opinions splattered all over social media and the resulting mindless group exercise of the modern day witch hunt. Half-baked news spreads like typhoid infested waters with the pressing of Android thumbs and everybody’s an expert. And everybody’s opinion is as self-righteously correct as the texter’s before them and the millions to follow. We will show our solidarity, dammit, and you will know our view is right and true by the signs we hold up on the screens of YouTube or FaceBook or even on the network evening news because the media wouldn’t … Continue reading The Hordes
Repetition Interrupted
It makes me anxious, reading your words. I’ve done my years of anxious, of constantly running three steps ahead of a fit. I threw that shit away in 2009 after my good altruistic intentions got slammed by a sledgehammer of entrenched mediocrity. And that was just in my work life. Friends come and go and I became caught up in a frenzy of mindless socializing, of running from event to event not of my choosing, hitting the streets in a dervish dance from bar to parade to fest to second line and guzzling the latest cocktail de jour or micro … Continue reading Repetition Interrupted
Morning Meditation
A slow rain falls and thunder rumbles, its sound waves rolling over tree tops and through glass and concrete. Inside, wet dogs lie and coffee percolates. I pull the soft plum fleece up to my chin, dozing to the plink of fat raindrops on the roof. Continue reading Morning Meditation
Morning Meditation
pollen falls like golden rain tiny wrens flutter green fingers wave good morning Continue reading Morning Meditation
What’s Shoes Got to do With It, Part 2
All night long she keeps one eye on the tables, one eye on the stage and her third eye on every sweaty hand that wanta creep up her skirt. Wearing a skirt’s a bad idea in a place like this but the manager says if she can’t show a little leg then he’ll show her the door and she needs the tips the sweaty ole hands drop on her tray. It’s the wee hours of the mornin’, Dixie Delicious is dancin’ up on stage with some big ole white feathers hooked to her arms, floatin’ around her head lookin’ like … Continue reading What’s Shoes Got to do With It, Part 2
Morning Meditation
sunlight twinkles on dewdrops cat stretches her legs a new morning unfolding Continue reading Morning Meditation
Death by Desire
I want wine but I drink water. I want to hold your body so close and so hard that your breath is forced from your lungs and only by sucking it into mine will your life be spared. I want wine but I drink water. Continue reading Death by Desire
February 14
I don’t need to hear you say “I love you”, I want to know you do by the look in your eyes, the touch of your hand, the way you listen when I talk. I don’t need candy, flowers, diamonds or trips around the world. I only need you to be there during my darkest hours when I cover my head and wail like a lost child because life has left me bereft. I need you by my side when it counts: when the hurricane is coming, when loved ones die, when friends desert, when I fall into the biggest, … Continue reading February 14
Published
It’s a happy day! Today I have work on Metazen and in the February issue of The Dead School Mule of Southern Literature. On top of that I just received an acceptance from Dew on the Kudzu for “2 Worlds” which will be published on February 16. February is shaping up to be my month! Continue reading Published
