I read the shortest poems first like I clipped the shortest news stories for current events class in elementary school After reading one short story about an abusive upbringing told from the perspective of the abuser I dreamt about a drone It followed a couple who tried to hide their animosity He shoved her boots […]
The flowers don’t know The birds haven’t heard The children have no world to compare this one to Heaven on earth? Hell too Who has cast this reality? Who has solved the sum of everything? Who cuts off their nose to spite their face when our world ends or mends by the choices we make? […]
I used to dream of flying and then falling I marveled that I never hit bottom and never died Now I dream that I wake up driving I can’t see the road and don’t know where I’m going Sometimes I’m driving in a city down residential streets with cars parked on either side and an […]
Except for the dang squirrel who drives away the finches steals from the cardinals and blocks the titmouses I’m watching the robber the same time our (supposed) leader steals our country before our eyes He does as he pleases degrades checks and balances desecrates the Constitution like the Capital on January 6th As the news […]
We look at our own reflection more when we’re insecure and the more we don’t like what we see the more we look But sometimes the mirror plays tricks and the persona fades to black Sometimes the truth is reversed and the looking glass looks back Ducklings don’t see themselves as swans and Queens talk […]
I want to wake up Christmas morning like Ebenezer Scrooge did and know there’s still time I want jingle bells to chime and not be drowned out by the sound of Jacob Marley’s chains I want the billionaire bah humbugs of the world to be haunted Shamed by Christmas ghosts into epiphanies of conscience I […]
I was never the golden girl but I wove a dreamcatcher with golden thread and crossed a threshold through a golden door in a young woman’s dream I never believed in a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow but I knew the golden rule was a goal to value I didn’t seek […]
“Don’t make any exaggerated movements” my neurologist said But I see what needs straightening and feel the fear of disappearing It could be said that to be in constant motion is to be a moving target and being still is a sitting duck I don’t look down or up I walk a crooked path I […]
You don’t stand a chance against my prayers You don’t stand a chance against my love They outlawed the Ghost Dance But we shall live again… Robbie Robertson The bombs are silent They land inside my body They burn down my trust in what makes sense drop destruction on my faith in humanity I look […]
-For Susanna Our faces briefly touched with a brush of tenderness I kissed her and she cried And one wet tear was passed to me A bittersweet rush of love and grief I carried it like a precious gem that glistened on my cheek and when it dried I absorbed its grace and carried it […]
I’m already blindfolded So I closed my eyes to see I took the holy host and saw the deepest truth I didn’t learn to be independent by being left alone when rocking and shaking was my only voice I followed a tender trail of my little brother’s trauma when he was Hansel and I was […]
Hold tight before you let go Let your pages yellow and your roots show Hold your youthful beauty in a photo album with the gardens of Eden that you’ve plowed Hold your tongue when it’s time to listen Don’t hold back your tears Let go of belief and held presumptions Hold doubt at a safe […]
