Dayton

Dayton   we don’t even have to talk behind his back, fourth hour history snoring, a safe haven for snickering, a table’s distance. talk shit, watch the teach smile, shake her head, filter through her powerpoint. we’ve got to purge this rage from our minds,…

The Sound of You

I feel your breath upon my neck as you wake, then I hear you inhale my essence as you roll over to prepare for work. And I smile at the sound of you. Shower running, splashing rhythmically against the walls and I listen as you…

Swing Song: a haibun

As a girl, young, bordering on naïve, I had a tree swing. My stepfather climbed the backyard tree to tie the ropes with hands that were accustomed to being fists. Hour upon hour I sat in the swing listening to the ropes creak and the…

Self Made Celebrity

All hail Narcissus, Patron of speaking without listening Patron of exhibitionism Patron of mirror kissing lack of humility Look at me! Look at me! Look at the pretty things I’ve made Look at me now, ’cause I’m the prettiest I’m the strongest, smartest, most unique…

The Ocean

The ocean has a part of me it’s true, A piece of pure wild dancing gracelessly, Within my soul it comes and goes sometimes, And when it goes I know where it has gone, Back to the sea, the place where it belongs.   The…

Compatible We

Am I? Am I poetic in my flow? When the bloom of my lips open like a flower and the words that I speak flow like dew dripping from its tip Does it look like poetry? When my motion around you draws a gentle breeze…

Hour 6

Driving up the dirt road into the mountain campsite, this is not the behavior of a beetle. The car was home for the next two weeks, and I felt free. Caught between an unfulfilled dream and a status quo future. If I could use the…

2 pm

if there were no stars in the sky no moon to light my steps your voice would guide me through long winter nights    

Poem 5

With Love – Phone   I am a phone, Whose throne, nobody can own. The one who has a ringtone, Follow order like a line of stone. I am luckiest one here, Nobody can think to go without me, anywhere. I loved by everyone, More…

Early Morning Walking

He is completely untrustworthy… Ask my sisters, they’ll tell you the same thing… Hee hee hee hee . There is one in section 2, that I think if I wanted to pick the perfect building… I think pasta, you know something soft… I went running…