EVERGREENS IN JANUARY

As I push back the curtains, the shrubbery below the frosty window, in it’s evergreen style – with it’s small prickly green foliage, home to bagworms during summer, nestling pockets of snow now, in the glimmering cold sunshine of a mid January day in central…

ONE

If I were cement and shadows I could not know enough to be ready for such news — the letter in her loopy script her cheer and sweet affection sliced through by death — where-were-you-when, we ask, the moment’s film a looping strip, that heartbeat…

the first hour, a marathon

tell me a story, yours I want to tell you mine   let’s start at the beginnings that point where we are indistinguishable from each other that point, one where we begin to untangle unravel like a braid someone’s laundry clothesline someone’s fishing line a…

Summation of All Things

Don’t you feel it within That life is coming to its end Increasing number of murders And Natural cause deaths Nature is at its wits-end The wind doesn’t linger as it did before It’s rushing because it knows the time is short The waves move…

homecoming

Incomparable, unmatched free from attachments ; connected by sun and moon and heart beats of all that exist having waited since beginningless time no more waiting now for blessings and gifts , homecoming close; I am home no begining no end.

A Distinct Perception

It’s easy, isn’t it? Taking that bullet was easy for you? Leaving me behind, out of the blue. Even if it was to save my life, To protect our children, you, my wife Have left the world so much sooner than I I don’t think…

Chronicles of a Fat Girl

Do you see me I wonder can you see the tightly coiled strands of my hair that creates my crown The roundness of my ass from the remnants of the shape I USE TO HAVE or am I invisible do I walk into rooms through…

The End of Him

you were everything and nothing to me I had to let you go strings cut monkey off my back for the last time said I to myself 46 times before what made this time so different I am different I am better without the pretenses…

Tears

Tear’s that ran down my face will never. Be wiped away from the evil that capture my body. The pain that my soul was going through was like the fire of ‘Hell. Was upon my soul.   Tear’s that ran down my face will never…