With a burning heart she rose up from the flames meant to turn her to ash and like a phoenix with her wings of fire conquered the sky

Sliding Sonnet for a Side-Bitch   The air is cold, the night is deep and I on bended haunches creep like feral dog, to where you sleep more like than not, untroubled   I express a desperate whine outside your door, the thousandth time open…

And swiftly on to the next cheap checkpoint to keep me afloat until I kick into gear… Happy birthday, you and now blow out the candles Your wish goes unheard  

unwanted thoughts flood in plaguing heart and mind whispering “crazy”   not sure they’re mine psychically emphatic or insecurely blind   is there any truth to them questioning, mind comes unhinged   mercifully jumping through the rabbit holes twisting and turning till the truth is…

Till We Have Faces Till we have faces which others recognize, we’ll struggle for the genuine compliment of competence not a measure about how we make others feel, for promotions and invitations without expectations of contributing our best, for our voices to be heard without…

The Broken Lands They brought in big earth movers And dug a scar in the rich brown earth Where once had stood a bright red barn, A pasture for cows, and before that A virgin forest where deer and bear roamed Now Upturned land Rows…

Watership Down we beg for our lives against the giants that cannot speak yet, they yell while we scream we run, we run snares and poison breaking families we hide, we hide. through the tunnels through the earth when home is no longer safe. take…

Truth is subjective. Is an orchid a flower, or a bee’s lover? Is truth mutable? One turns my truth a lie’s nest, and hollows through my soul. Oblivious truth… one calls me all the uglies. Lies become my truth. Lies are not my truth. An…

Pretzeled into knots Not as complex as they seem Thought quality like a lingering lucid dream So many schemes So many avenues of deception both to others and to self Inspiration at the sacrifice of health So fucking mental The trick to bend around society’s…

Into the wild I go, brazen and brave. Leave it all behind, no turning back. Will I ever be satisfied, it seems unlikely. Brazen and Brave I go. Crack callouses lead me, following my heart. Dirty hair spirals out of my head, shielding me from…