At the therapist
You say it’s only healing while I pick at scabs coping, hoping that someday I’ll learn to live with stitches, stretch of scars and this: my skin’s too thin to […]
Category Archives: free verse
Wishful thinking
I wish my wishful thinking could be more, much more than this, my sinking into wistful drinking. I wish I had more restless vigor, urge of yearning, a will to […]
Unfit like dodos
Unfit like dodos, hope are eggs we count before we crush them with our weight. It’s like the parchment promise signed with borrowed blood, the blindfold driving, speeding into bleeding. […]
Mistress Music
Strummed on strings, perhaps it’s more my drum that singes hearts and sings with soil beneath my feet — It’s earth, this night, this dance perchance a moment or forever […]
Translucent silver
My moon, translucent sweet you — a bat-of-lashes fluent heated temptress, silky empress. You the teaser, freeze of sea, you a pilferer of silver river mirror cross the midnight water. […]
