Coveted silence, coveted night, revelations flood like streams of light.  When purpose ceases, when vision fails, when love is gone,  I can hear every banshee’s wail.  I see the wooden plots cresting on the water’s gentle waves.  Archers with their flaming bows, aiming towards the floating…

I come to my work every day So I can give time for some pay. But as I sit stoic My life as a poet Is slowly just wasting away.

Swimmed the mountain and climbed the ocean.. Wore a sweater to the beach and swimsuit to a land frozen. Landed on the Sun, saw the Moon blazing hot. Looked down to Jupiter to spot my home. And saw toddlers making cupcakes.. And mum playing with…

MELANCHOLIC BOTH, THE FORMER, END OF THE DAY’S UNFULFILLED DREAMS THE LATTER IS A NEW DAY TO HOPE, ON TO ANOTHER DREAM DIMINISHING NATURE’S LIGHT, TURNING ON A NEW SET OF RAYS BOTH DIMLY LIT, BOTH NEEDS EYE ADJUSTMENT THE BEST TIME TO THINK AND…

the world doesn’t stop for me. The kids call. My husband gets hungry. The chickens need clean water and hay. I come home from work worn thin. All day and into the night I write lines in my head, leave notebooks lying around everywhere. Distracted,…

Youth Let’s run away! I think there’s a tree we can climb. I’ll make a bed for you with your favorite blanket. Yes! The one your parents would bring to the beach in the Jeep. It’ll smell of the salty Gulf in the canopy of…

I’ve been trying to live my life lately as if tomorrow’s tomorrow will never come. After seeing angels fall from grace and demons grow beards and walk with canes. I realize my time here was gifted By a man with no face. So I take…

In the morning I went about life coffee, laundry, reading – completely unaware that the world was ending. In the evening, I fell and fell deeper into the nothingness of the chasm that opened without warning beneath me. Somewhere between those pinpoints of time, the…

I love writing whether it’s for lists, poems, stories, drafts, form filling, online courses you name it, I love the actual physical act of writing them. I’ve always been a storyteller from as far back as I can remember. As a child, the eldest of…