Slipping (hour 9, 2017)

SLIPPING The sky was weeping mercilessly the evening we entered New Mexico.   Staring skyward, palms uplifted to the sonorous, wet falling, I felt a slipping in my heart – heavens unbalanced – this desert – too green too green.   I saw the climate…

Dancer

Like the chances from Day 1 to here, she finds opens upends the box, muses searches picks & unthreads, teases meaning from all kinds of mess, checks gaps resets, hopes tests, lets swing at the kinks, straightening us out before plugging in, then runs off…

Hour Four: Music’s Splendid Ability

Hour Four Prompt It devours your soul, then it spits you out.   It devours your soul, and you can’t escape. All that was hidden inside you is unveiled by music. The three to five minutes it plays feels like an eternity, and just when…

2. What I feel now…

What I feel now is a long-felt want. Every night and day like a ghost I haunt to feel something other than emptiness, searching for the meaning of life, the substance of me-ness.

What Color is Your Aura?

Yellow auras are analytic while reds are competitive and energetic Romantics are cast in auras pink and green-hued folks are more creative than they might think Orange belongs to generous souls Purple’s the psychic who mysteriously cajoles Blue is the strong worker, organized Those most…

2

A touch speaks volumes more than words but what if words are all you have for they can travel the distant spaces between the people connected A glance a blink a twinkle in the eye the soul – in perfect nudity Yet hiding from the…

Bella

The pink of her cheeks, The softness of new baby skin, Rosebud-colored lips framing her mouth, Deep chocolate-black hair, smooth and fine, Tiny fingers wrapped around mine, Blue-black eyes open, not seeing, Ears hear my voice, head turns my way, She’s pulling my finger, her…

10. Love story

Once upon a time, Blue got sick. red dots covered his body, he thought it was a silly trick.   Purple was in love with Blue, but he really had no clue. The red dots faded right away the moment he said: ‘I love you…