the more poems. three, draft.

more than this. luscious words rolling out between the crackle and pop on a night where everything seemed hard. frozen. brittle. and sudden. is this okay. it is more than okay. it is soul thawing.

#6

I miss you. I see you everywhere. In the trees,the birds my dinner. You are all around me, perhaps even in me. My life is without you now. Sometimes aware of my loss, mostly not. Small things bring you back again. together with waves side…

Hour Six: Sentry

Sentry   Late summer’s tree stands proudly sagged with age-spotted greenery weeping in the humidity. its trunk hosts industrious insects, frantic with winter premonitions   Fierce late summer tempests taunt the tree, daring it to shed its steamy, wilting coat prematurely   If the late…

How Do I Say This

This feeling is new Being with you   Never have I felt Something so swell   You’ve swept me off my feet Right onto my back   I can’t escape this heat Can’t wait for our bodies to meet   Run your fingers through my…

Flying in Flying out

Like the planes before us we would touch down on the runway and be one with our family again. Chatter of everything from left to right would fill the air. Times limited so we made it count. The puffy clouds pillowed the horizon creating a…

Napping

Afternoon naps are sometimes the best Time to get up and get on with the rest There’s fun to be had And memories to be made It’s time to be glad There’s games to be played

Prompt Hour Six–Haibun

Out of Body Earbuds firmly planted, for the first time I listened to the musical magic of Depeche Mode, flagship for my eighties alternative generation, as I waited for my race. My mind was freed, and I only unplugged when approaching the starting blocks, tossing…

Body Paint (PG-13)

we go in circles about this dance the one two step of exploration cross heat cross feat and denial that we could survive the silence we create in the eye gazing that speaks of desires lingering cross hairs cross fire   and explosives ready to…

“Evolution has no place in Christianity”

“Evolution has no place in Christianity.” Oh how many times I’ve had that said to me! But here’s the thing, stick around, you’ll see– I’m living proof they coexist even inside a single being. Evolution doesn’t just mean dinosaurs, or 65 million billion years, or…