There’s no valid explanation for her moniker. Perhaps the disaster of her male dress when high collars and long skirts were called for. Or her trek west atop horse, fearless where others were not. Credibility is called into question when alcohol scents female breath. Besides, we…

I keep the pieces of the angel ball. They are too lovely to discard– hand painted wings and stars and sky (and dried red peppers in a bunch) on egg-shell slivered glass.   Ideas broke my heart . . . be perfect, which you cannot…

I never wanted it to be “us”, You couldn’t let it rest. You wanted to prove to me You were my man I guess. For a few good months, You introduced me to this caring, loving man, That he was qualified to spoil me in…

Broken The long, sustained dream of my happy childhood was snapped, before and after pieces felt and mourned at far too young an age. A broken heart, the unseen inner portion of a secretly broken body, brutalized by a teen boy who really should have known better. He lured…

BROKEN I wanted to figure, out why I hated to cook, so I went back a few years and took a look.     I was young, barely four, but an independent streak, had I. I reveled in a house of love, music, and song.   No foul…

I’ll never forget the night the night I begged you to stay the night I tried to convince you that we were worth staying for that we were better than any drug you could consume I laid myself down on the floor, on my knees…

I showed you holy, you showed me purity’s price then you showed me holes

RIGHT NOW SOMEWHERE ON THE GLOBE The poetry marathon is cutting across a different segment of the stratum of the world But the same segment of the journey we are on together. Someone is in a household that is waking up, Someone is in a…

Not good enough was planted in my mind when attention needed I could not find In the one man who was supposed to be there He left and created A new family elsewhere He allowed his wife To treat us bad The first man to…

I once heard about a dog near death his owners granted his last wish for cheeseburgers He lay, unmoving on the floor hadn’t moved for days they sat around to say their goodbyes and cry and hug an to gift him with a feast a…