They say when atomic bombs detonate It is all flash and no bang. When six children scream Cry Whine Over YouTube ads and stolen toys Rumbling bellies Wet diapers Bitten digits chomped by the dinosaurs Roaming my living room It is machine gun blasts and…

Mr and Mrs Cello Natural and calming Soothing and unifying Bonding to love Solemn takes me on a journey Upbeat and easy to listen to Enjoying the tune is catchy Beautiful music adorable tune Violin awesome threading My head swaying from side to side My…

1     Deciding on green   Grateful for green Outside a spring window Evolving and becoming Too many colors to count   Soon heat will fade These infinite shades To become a suggestion Of autumn’s palate   A wise choice green Soothing hopeful free Though…

the give and take pulls me apart between anger and sorrow

I knew the moment we met that the stars were alive within your eyes. The constellations bloomed across your very skin. I’m dazed from drinking you in. I watch your delicate lips move, the color of dogwood leaves in the fall. I watch you lose…

Give me a chance to put in my objection No matter how you feeling blue Give me a chance to put in my objection I may not be familiar with your language I sure do can say I love you I am gonna love you…

We were so happy then When When When You held me on rainy days Captive in the water for what seemed like hours Only mere seconds until we drifted to shelter Umbrella or indoor weather Where we’d occupy the rest of the day Those days…

A tree that bend from a hill, Often cast a spell to kill. Its chant whispers through the wind, And slowly sips, and sips your blood. It stoles whatever love you hold, You will do things as it was told. In a summer heat, underneath…

KINDERHOOK CREEK for Thaniel, Evie, & Peyton   the coolness of the shifting shallows under our feet a hot day ebbs away in the shade of the pine trees I’ve hurt myself, careless, every time we’ve gone letting my blood become another truth of the…

Papa— Awake before the sun but after the Robins have begun their songs for the day. Awake because I lay in my thorny nest of warmth— Wondering if you’d still enjoy the Robin’s sing knowing it’s the last Spring you’d hear them — and knowing…