Bone & Keratin

I imagine you in the Costa Rican rain forest peering down the magnificance of your beak, the radiance of your plumage twinkling tree-stars in the mist, your strident calls reverbrating between the breasts of mountains, rolling through lush valleys of verdant loam. As a human you would be an artist preening before a canvas, sweating blues & greens, weeping purples and reds,rolling through multi-hued sheets brushed with forested liquid, face lifted above the treetops, fingers brushing stars. *** Na/GloPoWriMo Early bird Prompt via NaPoWriMo.net Image of Jadeite Bird Pendant via The Metropolitan Museum of Art Continue reading Bone & Keratin

Twin Pies Lit + Fevers of the Mind

It’s been Lucky February for me! I am so grateful to Twin Pies Literary and Fevers of the Mind Poetry Blog for selecting my work for their fine publications. My Flash Fiction piece, “Four Levels of Infatuation“, is in Twin Pies new issue. Thank you, Jessica Evans and D.T. Robbins! My two poems, “Shelter in Place” and “Swaddling the Beast, are currently featured on Fevers of the Mind. Many thanks to David L O’Nan! * This weekend should have been the big parade weekend before Fat Tuesday but, alas, the pandemic has cancelled Mardi Gras, as we’ve always known it. … Continue reading Twin Pies Lit + Fevers of the Mind

A Day In the Life of a Sick Woman

A cat in heat has been caterwauling non-stop for at least a week & fire trucks are wailing & road rage-crazed drivers are honking & buses are vroom-vrooming & kids are playing basketball in the parking lot behind the house, the ball thump-thump-thumping on the pavement making the dogs bark & the drive-up kid at McD’s is talking into the mic so loud I can hear each & every Yat-infused syllable she speaks to each & every fast food starved patron who drives up & lord have mercy I’m sick & tired of being sick & tired & can someone … Continue reading A Day In the Life of a Sick Woman