i struggle to count the stars in the sky because it hurts to lie on my back the earth does not welcome my spine nostrils inhale soft dirt intoxicating the newness of it potential possibility fingernails grasp at the permanence forehead pressed firm into the…

Fingers deftly dance Clicking across clacking keys Nothing comes to mind

places we cannot name I am taught we are all one. I read the wind with my fingers to soil – could hear incantations of freedom in the whisper of poplar dancing leaves forced into jigging by gale-force Prairie winds like those dancers in enchanted…

Front Door Nester   It sat upon the front door light well made Needing to move the roost before the eggs arrived   The human carried the empty nest to the barn Settling it down on a rough hewn beam   Instructing the mother-to-be kindly…

Crystal waters lap at my feet I lay watching the stars Looking for the stories they tell Heros and monsters of simple times Shining from deep blue Throwing light to the pale water My breath loud as thunder in such quiet   I really liked…

I’m on my second now. My first ended on the sandy shores of an ocean of despair. Approaching the rocks, a woman stood idly by nursing the wounds of the offspring who recently emerged from obscurity. Think nothing of it and move on. The shockwaves…

Bandage my fingers Virginia Carraway Stark The road is at my feet again I take a tentative step forward I can’t wait to see How each time I crest Each new horizon I fall in love With every view Again and again And how there…

She thought she needed more than who she was. She did not see the things that she was capable of. Like a garden long forgotten in full bloom she had a beauty that not even she knew. -h.e.m. 12 pm

Darkness Dementors Dejection Join hands in tandem   Happiness Ameliorators Affection Swim faraway ibidem   He might be here tomorrow He might not

Consuming fire across the hall Burning papers everywhere Turbulent heat feeling around the room Fumes of old gas as if I am gasping for more breathe Trying to escape from this imminent madness of fire Walls falling down and top of the roof falling apart…