Come join with words, Make melody. Come now and sing, Heartfully free.   Bind me to friends, And family Bring me to life By natures breeze.   Come rivers small, Come mountain glee, Clap thunder clouds, Sing all with me   Mountains Rivers, Oceans…

Woke up, fell down, exited sideways. A new memoir every five years. My second grade teacher was right.   Rather sing than stay to chat. Someone had to pay the bills. Didn’t fit in then, still don’t.   I love my lady…and bacon. Buried gold…

Blue eyes, red lips and that yellow sundress she stares back across the table like a goddess of dawn

11 2017 Shylock Shylock by Paul Robert Sanford What am I to you? A Villain? A Joke? A Victim? Some Christian wrote me with a big nose and greedy palm, burning for vengeance on those who have wronged me. He got part of it right….

Grandmothers Grandmothers are special people Never knew either grandfathers. Soldier. Preacher. I had one mean grandmother and one nice. Tall, slender, deaf and blind As a child I took care of the nice one. She stayed with us I slept next to the portable urinal…

  When we are very young We dance, we sway Instinctively We watch others But we swirl on our own Letting the music take us and we take the music   In youth we dance in circles Laughing Alcohol, the sensuality, the joy consumes us…

the midwife’s brow frowned, the labor was not going well the first time mother was holding back instead of pushing through the midwife called for the father in the next room beckoning his violin too wooing him to play his cherished jig; like the swallow-tailed birds…

Spill my dreams upon the floor Tape them to your wall Remember what I said Oh how you’re going to fall Lie to yourself Grow your disease Convenience of stolen memory Is what helps you sleep Denial brings you closer To shattered belief When it…

Meet me away from the eyes and the judgements Away from the smirks and the stares Set me apart from the fancies and fables The stereotypes and cliches Take me away from the lies and the whispers Away from the constructs and tales Meet me,…

I’ve changed like a flower in the spring I once was surrounded even covered by deceit that was cold as snow it even filled the environment brought down spirits so that the environment had frozen I once had money that brought forth such greed it…