Eyes burn when closed. It’s harder to focus them. My hands are clumsy. My mind even more so. Names are the hardest to get. Full sentences nearly impossible. Everything is either funny or angry. Music is the only salvation.

back home again, at the trailer, and it seems that I can see – the gleaming street light, still shining bright, by the curb for me, the fresh cut grass, sends out it’s fragrance, on the streets I used to roam, when I think about…

She often costs more than she’s worth Yet other times the greatest show on earth She rides me constantly when I do wrong Then plays up to me like a carnival song You never know where her mood will swing She’ll close up shop and…

Poem SIXTEEN has been removed and now appears on chocolate is a verb, 31 August 2016.

All day Watching cars pass. You could venture out there But there’s nothing left for you, so They say

My body was numb from the darkness that capture my body. The pain was so bad it couldn’t only come from the flame. Of hell that was upon my body. My soul wanted to scream the word’s couldn’t come out.   Their were just silent…

My father’s heart fell victim to heredity four years ago. The surgeon placed a stent in his aortic valve to brace the walls and keep the blood flowing. I imagine the stent shaped like a bridge to strings, like the one that bolsters the cello…

The heart is the most important muscle in the body Without its daily effort, life cannot exist Its amazement and wonder cannot be spoken of enough It pumps blood that travels the veins and arteries Reaching the brain so we can think; reaching our toes…

Planting seeds after soil is turned Producing beautiful flowers Picked for many reasons from the Earth With the passing of a loved one. At a funeral We beautify the presence of a loved one With many colors so bright Those beautiful flowers Handpicked because of…

The heart beats in the darkness of the womb as a secret   We are born with the heart protected by the cage formed of our ribs   Each moment our heart beats inconspicuously gathering love and joy tears and pain   The heart holds…