The orotund timbre of the beating heart A torrent of blood Streaming Torrid affairs Dearth of good will Draconian punishments To obfuscate the truth With ostentatious lifestyles Prescinding from darkness What’s love got to do with it?        

Journal Entry 247 I came across a legend, They looked to be like toadstools Homes for fae the size of shoes Too large to be normal mushrooms. My colleague saved me from disaster, Had I given in my toes would shatter For these were hard…

The soft flapping of the fragile wings, As the butterfly hovers over flowers, Scares me more than most things. What keeps me up late at odd hours, The incessant noise coming to an end, As it’s overcome by other powers. The flimsy membranes sure do…

Long ago in the mountains Near the Amazon The howling of wolves Could be heard It is said That the mountainside weeps Whenever a child is born For the pain of the laboring woman Can be felt by the very earth You can feel the…

  Final Destination   The blue-lined paper stares at me, as if mocking me in silence. My big brain sits all but empty as I scramble words together. A pinch of this, a dash of that, I mince words, creating chaos. Admiring my misguided mess…

Underneath the trees, we stare at the universe as it collapses in on itself. Maybe it need not be a swirling vortex of entropy; maybe we need look no further than inside ourselves to repair all that lies on the outside. Maybe we need to…

“A sentient creature, Full of life and joy, I love my laptop.”

D______ was glamorous, P____ was silly and one was my mother, who hovered between D’s edginess and P’s harmlessness. But, she was still the one who spent a year at a school for wayward girls. I was in my teens and not on any troublemaking…

Searching the Web   Where are the stories my ancestors told? They have died in the mind and I’ve stopped insisting on answers from the living. What I’m looking for is not written nor google-able and I am at a loss.   We remember bellow…

Long before Eve wedded Adam And begat Abel & his murderous brother turned fugitive Long before Noah’s ark set sail atop the deluge and the rainbow showed up An autochthonous people lived by the banks of Njaba River. A man emerged out of Njaba, Chi-Ukwu’s…