walking alone to the bar you thought I wouldn’t know you thought almost most things could slip past by me but I had your heart i knew it before you’d make sense of its unrest you’d send a video you’d send an audio sample you’d…

I’m trying to maintain a brave front. But continuous pummeling, left and right, will leave anyone with a dampened spirit, downtrodden at that. There’s a heaviness I can’t explain, darkened clouds hovering a silent howling. The better part of me keeps on reminding me, this…

One July day Karen and I took a walk in the woods. Summer friends since our days as kindergarteners a decade before, things had changed. Karen had changed. Sister of my best friend David, her tomboy ways with fishing poles and bait, canoes, axes and…

you may find me off balance and STILL, still I place myself in familiar and STILL, still I place myself in unfamiliar and STILL, still I am placed

the world whispers “run, or you may break,” but broken you may rise, fly, fall….

Don’t think of him as gone away His journey’s just begun Life holds so many facets This Earth is only one Just think of him as resting From the sorrows and the tears In a place of warmth and comfort Where there are no days…

I dream of all that I could be Of the life that I could live If only it could be real for me Oh what I wouldn’t give It comes to me in visions And wisps of imagination I see now more clearly I am…

Be sparing with your offering.. don’t cast pearls before swine… Imagine a pig in pearls, sloshing in the mud completely unaware how long it took for that oyster to manifest just one bead? I have cast plenty of pearls… One bead at a time… scattered them…

Are you hungry, little lady? Well tonight you dine on dust Don’t you wish to eat it? Well you must, my dear, you must   Don’t try to wash it down with tears The salt stings all the more   He pointed with a finger…

I am not born I am not dead I am not what The mind was fed A sparkle hid Neath dirt world Bruises healed As tongue uncurled A thicker skin A lighter mind Venom sucked While truth unblinds A taste of sweet Coats my lips…