Hour Fourteen Ekphrastic Screw class. Love is more important. But I need cash. Constructing our lives together by looking into a construction site through a diamond cut hole? I watch buildings rise. What concrete? What mortar? What do I use as beams, without a foundation?…

I grew up in a house where art and laughter were rationed and metered out and never supposed to be shared together. Art was a privilege and laughter was a reward of the highest order. Growing up paint splattered was never a lesson I  thought…

The day I heard about the kids and where they were buried was the day my world stood still.   Anger flowed through me as I wanted to yell out to the world “What’s wrong with you!”   Sadness washed out the anger, as I…

I [redacted] tell you. What you [redacted] hear What you need [redacted] [Redacted} my dear I [redacted] tell you. Though [redacted] I fear The words [redacted]. Are just [redacted] my dear I [redacted] tell you. Hear [redacted] you must. They [redacted] say. [Redacted] words are…

Prompt Fourteen – Text Prompt Redacting is the act of censoring or obscuring part of a text. Sometimes it is done by the author themselves, and more often it is done by someone else. I want you to write a poem and then during or…

  Engifted with new technology, I wonder what’s left of our ideology, What remains from our imaginations, What hopes remains in our visions.   When answers automatically pop-up without a question, Will these still be important? What are the mysteries remains? Is there humanity left…

M.M.I.W Murdered, Missing Indigenous Women (2nd poem)   Missing sisters, wives and Mothers are taken and Injured vicious While internally screaming in agaony.

The blinds are always left up by about 6 inches, the height of the dog’s heads They rush across the kitchen floor when they hear the beeping of the electric lock. The first to greet me at the door, sometimes the only one Laying on…

Code Talkers II   A part of history that is important that needs to be shared numerous times.   Several tribes from the Southwest joined to form a platoon.   The military’s code was constantly being broken, decoded, Everyone was clueless.   One soldier from…

She found us within our pasts, memories enveloping us like cloaks. Our complicated yet precious web of love and experiences had created a tapestry in our hearts. In the stillness of the evening, she arrived to fulfill a longing, her eyes holding a story, seeing…