Two faced, backstabber, hop along, lady. Speak your language and laugh for you will be sorry in the future. You think it’s all safe and you are saving your kind, but instead you indoctrinate hate. I hear your double-edged sword words that mean nothing to…
Category: Half Marathon Poem
Prompt Three (pulling threads from one and two)
tomorrow sheets of azure, an open canvas writing my words on the wind watching them waft towards new worlds – standing on the cusp of myself swells of liquid teal, swimming the depths of imagination – reeds of metaphor swaying like seaweed beds of simile…
Invisible (Hour 3)
She observes from afar. She slowly stalks her prey, friends, an endangered species in this concrete jungle. Oblivious to her, they stare into their palms. Walking blindly, navigating obstacles, bridges, stairs. Capturing themselves, yet missing those around them. Connected in their disconnect, they do not…
Hour 3: Seven Pictures
Seven pictures hang On my grandmother’s bedroom walls: 1 My Grandfather, whom I did not know 2 The gaudy guardian angel hovering behind kids crossing that bridge 3 Me 4 Teddy Roosevelt, no one seems to know why These on the west wall above her…
Illusory Truth
It’s a sort of truth itself that repeating something often enough gives it the illusion of truth. Advertisers know this. How many of us can go a day without applying deodorant or moisturizer? Who told you the smell of sweat was something to be feared?…
Poem I: Distance is Measured By Silence
Silence between us sounds like prayers made for a reunion, like poems written in the darkness but you don’t return. The time is marked on the morse code of my muscles, the melanin therein has been completely replaced which is to say my skin is…
Her world
On one of our last visits, I pointed to the sky and said, “oh, mom, look! — look at that bird flying above us!” and she said, “what I see is a long, long line of energy.” And her world was different and good. She…
The Truth Is Out There
The Truth Is Out There Standardized reporting system for UFO’s Please circle one: Did you report this sighting as an: Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) Unexplained Physical Object (UPO) I was unable to identify the driver of the…
Paths
Paths Follow me for I shall guide you Follow me for I shall guide you Follow me for I shall guide you Follow your own path? I know the way. I know the way, I ‘ve walked it many times I know the…
Disappointment
A crushing disappointment Like glasses and stones and wood Shattering and crunching and splinting A cry rippling from the throat In shadows and doubt A curtain of despair Fluttering and swirling Churning rancid and scarred A scar deep within Clanging with flaw