Sister   beneath Nana’s afghans telling scary stories we gave our childhood a home blue and purple stretched over pillows we wandered through imagined places enclosing sister secrets and pleasures   it lasted as long as it could   replaced by others with their false…

Standing tall in it’s stately manner, curved at the top and rich purple grapes growing up the trellis and overhead, prolific with fruit and beautiful to see; in just weeks all that plump fruit will be cleaned and boiled down, sugar added, and poured into…

Poem SIX has been removed and now appears on chocolate is a verb, 27 August 2016.

There are spiders everywhere This showed how Goddesses punish They weave and jump across those who are immortal the tomato plants and cucumber How many ways can a God Leave sticky strings across use a woman as malleable pulp the entry to the washing machine…

Welcome to the wonderful world wide web: Where dreams strike poses on Kickstarter And nightmares stalk message boards, Taking unnoticed bytes of your time. Where the static of 24-hour gossip that passes for news Fills the empty spaces you forgot about (Plus ones you didn’t know…

The world is now much smaller Long lost friends reunite; lovers meet defying odds Strangers comes together to help in need Online dating, crowdfunding, Classmate finders Words unheard a few decades ago… yet In today’s world, they are ever life changing While sure, technology can…

What started as Sticks and Stones Designed to break bones In a time long gone Grew into the cultivation Of a civilization, Forming nations And eventually becoming The aching,Need for accompanying – Words and connections have Consumed us halves Trying to find wholes In a…

I still remember my first foray. It seems like it was only yesterday. And I thought, how could somebody so divine Be interested in a persona like mine? It didn’t end the way I thought it would, needless to say But I still think about…

Minutes of darkness that cover my soul felt like the darkness would. Never leave my body. The pain came upon my body like lightning that turn. Into the thunder of hell.   Know matter of the lightning and thunder is gone. The darkness of the…

Breathing Sighing Singing Dying