Penny’s Rant

” okay, so everyone else is busy with their own stuff right now, because of… Well everything, and I’m stuck having no one else to talk to. So if you don’t mind not flying away and pretending to listen, I would really appreciate it.” The…

Hour Twenty-One

Staring up at the ceiling, asking silenced questions. “What would you do if you could do anything?” “Leave.” Staring up at the ceiling, making preparations.

Big Fishtails

I went fishing with my best friend Down upon the lake. We had rods and reels in hand And a pail of fresh oatcake. We tossed our lines into the depths Certain we would find That old granddaddy catfish That we always seemed to leave…

Hour twenty one

The place I live in The sky in the place where i live is blue, the bluest you have ever seen, When it rains, it rains not buckets but enough rain to last a life time. When the sun shines, it is so strong we…

21 – dreamer-

I have watched this girl for a while now, she is becoming more like the trees she loves so much, every time my eyes catch her tiny frame wondering through the bush, her skin etched with wonder lines her hair mattered like branches, the sun…

Hour Twenty-One, Exaggeration

Tall True Tale My Creek Native American ancestor was seven feet tall and a blacksmith that married a white woman and drove his cattle and sheep eight hundred miles to market one way on foot and returned home empty-handed eight hundred miles again. He died…

Caregiving

I poke my head into your room to ask a question. And find You Clutching your stomach, A fistful of chub in each hand. You stare at yourself With disgust, With loathing, With sadness. “Fuck,” you say. And I realize That if I ever love…