Down a two lane road In Southern Alabama Thousands of seeds are sowed Before long the vines break the ground And the sun and rain goes to work Soon tiny green fruit is all around The little green fruit swells in the heat And the…

places we cannot name I am taught we are all one. I read the wind with my fingers to soil – could hear incantations of freedom in the whisper of poplar dancing leaves forced into jigging by gale-force Prairie winds like those dancers in enchanted…

the wind reminds me there is more than self more than what self consumes life with the wind brushes against my skin fairly undiscriminating, freely, softly, lovingly touching the parts of my flesh clothes don’t cover My eyes fail while attempting to catch a glimpse…

You don’t know which words to even dig for. You’re paralyzed as rock   but at least that keeps you from jumping off the cliff, at least you recognize all the problems lining up to take you even lower past all the heaped-up piles of…

Walk into the sunlight Feel it caress your neck Allow it to seep into who you are Brightening the darkness out Stop trying to control the world It doesn’t belong to you Stop cleansing the deceit Stop trying to fix the broken Bask in the…

  We’re old enough to recognize how wise and cool we are,   and young enough to apply our wisdom almost almost forever.   J. Pratt-Walter 6/22/2019

Darkness Dementors Dejection Join hands in tandem   Happiness Ameliorators Affection Swim faraway ibidem   He might be here tomorrow He might not

I got a baby sister when I was four But like a lot of former “only children” do I didn’t want her for very long or to have any more. Now she is my very best friend and I am hers, too.   We moved…

Can the ocean feel? There where the land splits apart, who heals the edges?   J. Pratt-Walter 6/22/2019

In constant agony, pain Unsafe, unsure, scared Take my hand, let me help you