My winter coat’s too thick
Elongated seconds crawling crusts of centipedes, crabs, joyful as the jinglebelly muzak underneath my skin. Sluggish earthworms: heartbeats drumbeats upbeat — soon. “Can i have them wrapped?” Inhale-exhale the weight […]
Category Archives: poetry
A shotgun wedding
I dread the choices they propose between what’s bad or maybe worse. A shotgun wedding, I suppose is something like when seeing worth in hues of skin or acts of […]
Thanksgiving for an exposed sinner
The darkness eats reflections of the warmth from candlelights and dinner served inside the house he used to call his home; he tried in vain to mend the holes; with […]
Why still ambiguous?
As branches bends for desert winds, close to breaking, and the weight of what I’ve said is slightly less than my mute retort inside. They send me feathers white of […]
Water trapped in bogs
Her sentences where rivers once, meandering through marshlands, building into lakes and rushing rapids, heading for the sea. “Why was I never told, that mother’s dead?” She’s angry once again, […]
