Leaving in November
You left when leaves were dirty rags, when foliage shrunk to tattered shrouds dangling on the barren boughs. You left when days were dusk and foggy fingers slipped around my […]
Category Archives: poetry
Daylight stings
A raging wind tore leaves from limbs of dying trees, when from the graveyard far away a hell hound howled. “This night the ghosts are out”, the landlord said and […]
Fairer than a fairytale
Once upon a dragon, dressed in silver young and fair, the noble Princess Tinselwi rode to war, to fight the ogre Mooblestink, who ruled the swamp with perjury and slander, […]
Spicing the stew
Once upon a stormy dark November a lady dressed in white came home distressed to find her lover, dead, dismembered. His heart she found removed from broken chest, and on […]
A scent of morning
I left high school in 1979 with decent grades. I was silent and I was shy. I was non-athletic, non-musical and cared more for math than literature. I was a […]
