Short on Time, Hour 12

Can we lift the veil before it’s too late? Methane buildup Microplastics Mass extractions Tragic… Humanity to profit Is like rigid beliefs to a ten strip We claim we’re living green but we’re all slipping Temperatures rise with the tides And instead of moving inland,…

Escape

Caged Bird BY MAYA ANGELOU A free bird leaps on the back of the wind and floats downstream till the current ends and dips his wing in the orange sun rays and dares to claim the sky. But a bird that stalks down his narrow…

Hour 12 YOU KNOW JOE

you know Joe a wise old hermit a sharp cookie crazy nuts homespun the trouble with living like Joe is it’s easy Joe’s beans decided to tromp tromped up into the hills thinking you know Joe the first thing that went through Joe’s mind was…

Magazine clutter (halfway point)

Renaissance woman sounds nice I’ve been considered different bullied awkward trying to hide unique timid self conscious are what led up to me being not normal now i walk in rooms i try to avoid my accent rained glitter my voice sinks in my dreams…

Home [12]

My four walls wrapped around me that hot summer of your defection. Silence so loud it almost drowned out my despair. I opened the windows wide and the white cotton curtains swayed in the slight breeze; the roar of bees outside on the dandelions in…

Quatrains for Potted Plants

Our prayer plant returned from the dead several times. She prays every night. my stripling avocado trees grown from the pits tipped over in transit and never recovered the hanging, trailing house plants of our youth — no longer a fad, where do they grow?

The Night Fire

living buried under great ash heaps restless quiet almost forgotten she thundered spouted buried steam ashes sky night fire in time steep and thick craggy wild fire bellows casts out cinders crushed stiff ashes rise to far countries bellowing air pure

twelve

i can not bear to live inside my mind today i must go and play