Extend your hand until it touches my skin or until the sand falls through extended fingers, caught by the wind and blown to the distant sea. I have longed for your touch but I understand it is nothing but carbon animated by fire and blood…

“the smoke is bad today,” she said, “so hard to breathe. I almost called in.” our black cat drinks from her water bowl that I change out every other day. Neighbor, Jim, waters his two hundred plus varieties of dahlias, shirtless wearing just shorts and…

Tough getting started now I’m on the clock eighteen minutes more to post my first on twenty four   It will get better

Grow our my hair and beard and parade up and down Holly St weekly in neon colored tunics carrying a sign warning about the coming apocalypse Memorize Robert Pinsky’s volume of poems to read aloud and go to the torn down mills site reciting them…

Rico is screaming Point of no return, walking Into silent thunder and Overhead zigzags Blinding Inhale a deep breath Before a summer rainstorm- Amazing ozone Too bad pittie has Astraphobia   Diane Morinich, 2017

It’s elemental my friend. Some declare it is the end… ah, but eternity goes on forever; pays no mind to any weather. Apocalyptic birth pangs again; heavens pour down stones and rain. Thunder roars above the plain; lightning sparks the cleansing flame. Nothing old remains…

I feel like I’m in a movie Stuck in our own weird version of The Big Chill We’ve gathered Because a friend is gone Gone far too soon And by his own hand We gather Because that’s what you do Words were spoken last night…

lining shed as though emergence from cicada skin, shell discarded along with it – breadth and depth knowledge of captivity and familiarity with one’s surroundings but solitary confinement was only lucked upon (if one could call it luck), only slipped into casually tried on (an…

My questioned existence Purely confused inner mirth Never been able to Comprehend my origin Rather pushed to believe The point in being Than being made…   The day I was born They said The supreme wisdom Operating in the skies Made me… Out of the…

I could not be moved Only consumed as the wind pushed the air trapped in my lungs I could not be moved The foundation beneath my boot, dug into the earth Unsafe Consumed Unaware I stand in the fire take me to the water