The Clock Strikes One As I countdown Until I can see you. No more, Skype, Chats, or texts To keep us connected While you work. I will see you Again. Not a photo, but you. My love. Heart and soul, We’ll be skin to skin….

I am the distant, divorced, defiant daughter of parents who persistently ponder why I can’t just settle for simple. I trust these trouble-makers to tell me the honest, blunt truth. I married simple, and simply put, I smiled sweetly while he wiped away our forever…

As time passes, New leaves sprout on my English Ivy. New growth stretches towards the window. Towards the sun. As time passes, New truths are shared in my family. with my friends. More people know who I am now. But not enough As time passes,…

I noticed you the Spring following At first, I believed myself foolish to think you’d go to the trouble You were always so quick to go unnoticed If at all possible The Quiet Man, mom would call you Just like the movie You’d land on…

Exhaustion lingers in my soul. My bones are leaden, my muscles jello My body aches, my minds a troll I’m not even feeling mellow. My eyes they sting, each breath burns I feel my brain begin to quiver I give out, get no returns My…

Deja Vu I’m sorry what’s your name? Whos wedding is this again? Meet me in the alley. Wanna make out?

Delicate wings stilled by the sugary electricity of honeyed nectar. Amidst the haunted greyscale of enveloping shadows and imprisoning infrastructure, Nature sets silent beauty to experience the world in splendid simplicity, with citrus colors like a flame of an awakened life the butterfly drinks– an…

Silky jazz or a jangle banjo’s licks. Kick off your shoes, roll down your stocking tops. Weave through the smoke with whiskey on your lips. Come to me, here, deep in my dream, let’s dance. I often think I know all of your tricks, how…

Blinders on so we don’t see the harm that’s done, the travesty of children caged in a foreign land so afraid and alone though their cages are crammed with others who sought a better life and wound up here no hope in sight. But it’s…

I saw a little man With a hunched up Back Gobbling leftovers in a shack I saw a tiny girl Sitting under a tree Holding her injured knee I saw a famished boy Sneaking in an old shop Snatching from the table top I saw…