Did we fall out of the boom, the crash, the billions of bits that created the universe? I imagine us meandering around the cosmos, interstellar travelers perusing our options, riding eons of space highways & terrestrial autobahns, appraising the virtues … Continue reading Big Bang
First, determine if it’s worth finding. Check your pockets, eat the Hersheys kiss, dig the lint out from under your fingernails. Look in the very back corner of the junk drawer, past the MP3 player and 1984 Worlds Fair cigarettes. … Continue reading How to find the thing that’s missing
What if the Milky Way lived In the Earth? Would we walk In the stars, be called Twinkletoes Instead of Humans? What if Earth’s mantle lived In space? Would the sky be aglow Like birthday candles for our every days? … Continue reading Abstracted
Fear tempers my love of the letters Of this world which are as pins Through the body, like a woman in love With her own making, infatuated with all Corners of the blemished universe. The heart closes its doors, becomes … Continue reading Fear & Flow
Relieved laughter the day I left, Rolling in orange and silver – A getaway to the rest of my life. Sunlight winked on Ponchartrain As the city rose over gobbled miles And I ate it like candy. Days flew by, … Continue reading The Leavings
Lift the beige melamine cover From the plate, exclaim Over the pretty food colors Squash the color of daffodils Beets glistening like rubies A plop of mud colored meat (Don’t say this out loud) Lift the spoon to her slightly … Continue reading FEEDING A LOVED ONE WITH DEMENTIA
Good morning Poet friends! Who’s participating in NaPoWriMo this year? Please leave a comment so I can be sure to visit you. There are so many sites on the napowrimo.net list it’s daunting to look through! Thanks & I’m looking … Continue reading NaPoWriMo
The breeze off the river ruffles my hair, the sun shining on the water, diamonds with life-long intentions. I step with the crowd onto the dock – languages, scents, smiles intermingling as we move forward as one in a shared … Continue reading Riding the Ferry
Eyelids bluish-pink, delicate as angels lips, protect eyes weary of seeing too many broken things *** Art via Dailyart.com: Young Woman Sleeping, Rembrandt van Rij Continue reading When it’s too much
Inspired by Poets Sometimes I think I think too hard Too much Too long I get stuck inside My own head Where it’s often dark It’s crowded It’s unforgiving I want to be unstuck To look outside myself For possibilities … Continue reading Inspired by Poets
