when days were long and I was saddened your kind sweet words were the best med just knowing you were near by brought a smile and no tears friends for many years are hard to find we are two it’s true love  

At my subconscious landscapes’ mercy Opened to the inner life by sleep Let voices usher me in I am here to receive Nightmares scare me still Dreams tell me I’ve always been free to be be brave And see what Comes in the walk The…

Mercy –Show Mercy from Within   Mercy, let it flow from you Let it flow from within Deal mercifully with me, and with you – Indeed, with them, and with us   Forget not goodness and tender mercy Do you know any that couldn’t use…

One day at a time. Cloud(y) with rain, and Coming on down. A skyscraper lands on top of another building. Where 9-11 emerged. And killed so many people wow! The New Times Square vanished. They beat(s)the traffic. Workers from Lucy Lucky Bakery. Purchases sourdough of one dozen…

if i could live in these veins, holding this being in the palm of my hand held over my heart in longing to breathe you back into life in the sun in the field under the sky blue like the cleansing of my want to…

“What am I going to do? I was born when the gods had already died.” Pablo Neruda “What am I going to do? I was born when the gods had already died.” A time when indifference rode the sky and everyone felt alone. My ancestral…

Natural for me to fear lost life, this lightning flashing above me. Terrified in the green chair, rain dripping off shutters— blue St. Elmo’s fire. I am alright, but feeling jitters, God!  

blue veins leave dark stains your words become sticks and stones bones fold into leaves

My true self is an angel wrapped in joyous love. I catch a glimpse of her every now and then – she sings to me – and kisses me when I cry. She has carried me along many dark roads when no one else was…

Conversations, songs, us – steeped in rain, we lived each moment together, sure of our forever… but now our sweet duets I sing all alone arms have no one to embrace. I’m soaked alone.