Guard against the true melding of our minds when life’s journey does alteration find that impedes each one’s separate peace as we hasten to add now each to each. True togetherness needs separation since joining nourishes our equation. For each one’s strength adds a double…

Prompt 3 – Image   Perception We can look at the same picture, I might see differently from you, It’s what makes the world go round, But hey that’s okay.   There’s no right or wrong, we can agree, we can disagree, we can agree…

Prayer by the side of the night May the body not be a room filled with smoke May the bones not tremble into a glass shattering I’m knowing my body, by marking my wounds I’m knowing my country, by passing the blame May the slope,…

Heading out to perform today’s ceremony I am told ‘hope it goes without a hitch’ with a wink akin to telling an actor ‘break a leg’ Though hitching up people is what I do stating that sounds cowboyish there are metaphors there to corral I…

both single, both going to a formal party alone for the first time we find ourselves assigned to sit at the same table no coincidence, this was deviously planned by the hosts we sit next to each other, make introductions I secretly observe him, I…

Prompt 2 – In 10 Years   In 10 years   I’m 30, in ten years’ time I’ll be 40 I wonder what it’s like to be 40? 40 is the new 30 or so they say, 10 years is a long time, a decade…

(or The Menagerie, part 1) Esme white & black long-fur, markings look like a hat and cape aka ‘Fancy Nasty,’ cat matriarch pees wherever she wants just for funsies will screech if off schedule simply cannot Thor orange tabby long-fur, too many toes does not…

When I couldn’t find my driver’s license the last time, I felt nothing but relief. The BMV photograph and listed information showed a stranger that wasn’t even me.   Corrected it, but now my newfound privilege leaves me reeling. Sense of lost identity and negated…

Mr. Exhaustion                         Arrives home after another softball weekend – Sunburned, hungry, and hating that Monday’s coming –                       Ponders dinner options Deciding on peanut butter bread                       Eating over the sink In order to avoid washing dishes                       Wiping the butter knife off with…

Anger. Rage. All around people training to fight or defend. Awkward martial arts. Beautiful faces, roiling with ego and fear. Beautiful bodies with angular limbs, exposing uncertainty in proportion to the size of their weapons. Brandishing arms of war with snarls of terror to frighten…