Run (Hour Four)

Chasing me Its claws extending I look back and shudder Its flesh is shedding I must get away This creature This place I look back again All I see is her Reaching out for me I stop What is this place? There’s a scream I…

Hour 4

Most days I am far down deep waiting searching for clear sky through veiled layers in hopes of breaking the surface for breath drowning in BUSY-ness then, in a dream of whales I wonder What would it be like to swim?

Dream

In a dream I see you, clear as light of day, the smoke surrounding you vanished, walls around you disappeared – and you are no more than a memory for me to forget.

Opalescent Outflows

Poem Four For the Hour Four 15th of the calendar, finished dining At the best French cuisine Had the best Amanti Vino sip Eiffel couldn’t explain Temptations of the whirling trumpets From Tibetan to Paris waterspout It showers eerily, knocks me crazy The cackles from…

Philophobia

She burned like a candle he watched her flicker a bit as she lit the way and he decided he would rather stumble in the dark without her than need her so he blew her out and she faded

When you look at me and smile

When you look at me and smile, I do not melt. I do not crumble. I do not flutter. When you look at me and smile, I do not feel vulnerable. I do not get weak in the knees. My mind does not go to…

Constellations

You were just a speck of stardust in my sky floating, lingering, a faded memory I can’t deny, the swirling galaxy in my head, my star from another universe. It’s been hundreds of light years since JOY dawned on me Didn’t notice you before as…

A Small Irish Iliad

Naoise tied a red string in her hair And whispered her name. Deirdre, with the voice of the forest; Deirdre, with the litheness of the sparrow; Deirdre, with the song of the three rivers; May the music of your body beat To the rhythm of…