Brakeslammer

Brakeslammer Opening your third eye but it’s like you used a knife and the trips you took on shrooms I didn’t know if you would come back from your speech was garbled on the comedown a swarm of jank syntax and lip jerks you found…

Hour Six: Dear almost

Dear almost friend I would have still met you at our secret place to exchange our sweet sorrows and star speckled dreams, to imagine a brave world where we ruled, free from restrictive curfews and the necessity of social choice. How naive were we to…

6th hr image prompt: Enjoy this moment

Enjoy this moment Without any regret. It’s your birthday, You’re a bigger one. How old You’re? 6 yrs? Oops! Isn’t that true? Hmm— may I wrong Then guess again It’s your celebration time Enjoy this time. You’re seeing 6 yrs One by one with a…

From Holly-Prompt hour 6

From Holly—Prompt#6   Dear Oliver, how long has it been? Sixty plus years have grown between us. We were seven or was it eight years old but we were madly in love—remember? I would wear my hair over the shoulders long and straight, just the…

Umbilicus (poem 5 of 12, half marathon)

Dark hole, fleshy drain, once vital passage designed to receive, cut then clamped the pipeline turned an angry purple, then fell off. The opening capped with a whirl of skin now collects lint and dirt in its folds. Pick at the grit, the skin breaks…

#6

I want to lay with you on a hand stitched quilt on an open field full of sunflowers. My Darling Dear like the flower this too is our finest hour, and although we too will someday wither and fade, but my darling dear, my love,…

Poem 6. Dear Whoever You Were

I remember you. I remember your squishy lap, and you always having a warm towel when I played in the sprinklers. I remember snuggling my face into your soft neck. I remember you singing to us on the phone, and in the videos on the…

Hour 6 (2022)- My Forever Friend

Dear Felicia,   Remember the days of playing Wonder Dog Jumping off the pump in the playground Crawling around on all fours and barking Laughter filling the air. Remember when you moved and we lost touch You returned and it was like our friendship Never…