The clouds are calling out to each other overhead, anger flashing between them, and the remnents of their words coming down to us in a cacaphony. Sometimes I wonder about what they must be arguing about, or if some of it is just a show…

We need to talk. We need to see. We need each other. We need a moment alone. We need to have faith. We need kindness. We need trust. We need love. We need the way we compliment each other. We need the feelings we share….

Little Mouse Virginia Carraway Stark Little black teardrop Mouse Brought to the bearer of light Big eyes Of black Ness Eating up Potential with Little chittering teeth Long tail Dark brown fur Fallen to doom In this The thirteenth Of June

With my heart tucked into my pocket I flew into the massive city of San Francisco where petrified giants and delicious cacophony consumed me In that city I met beautiful women, with delicious skin, blonde hair,and blue eyes that pierced my soul When I wasn’t…

My mother’s clothes always smelled of yeast and flour, cinnamon sugar and vanilla. For years I thought her apron was sewn onto her dress. She never took it off, except on Sundays, when church was mandatory. Daddy, her husband, had been ordained although he secretly…

When a drop rain falls on a rose. It melts the petal. Just like our life . When a petal from a tear that falls on a rose. The rose was from a love that is gone. When a drop of rain falls on a…

 You most vain a mere reflection without any warmth, feeling or regard cold, sharp, clear, unforgiving attention seeking never seizing witness of the beauty, tenderness, anger, and sorrow of each heart  large and rotund you hang there each and every day when I leave, you seem…

Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue and Purple; The Pride flag flutters exactly as a flag should on a San Francisco afternoon in June; The fingers of each of its stripes caress the blue sky It waves with the triumphant spirit of possibility which, for many of us,…

It’s a great picture It really is Tall gray-stoned wall Reaching around a sweet meadow scene A happy tree waving at you But the picture is over exposed Really, the sun did not cooperate It just shows up there Ruining the whole scene   The sun is…

Rocking into the dimly fading light Confusion swirling like falling powder Soft etherial haze of coming night   The chiffon grey of each passing hour Clouding the sedulous plans promise made Before the fog endeavored to devour   by Karen Sullivan Form: Terza Rima  …