Poem 7 Hour 7

His black face is relaxed. His long body taking up almost the whole ottoman. His soft snores make me smile. His fur is growing back after his last hair cut. A sleeping cat is a happy cat. Almost 11 years old, he still plays and…

Hour 7: A Hundred Dreams Ago

I saw you a hundred dreams ago There, back on that old wooden bench by the lake I saw you as you were back when we first met Just as stunning, just as ethereal Time had taken a lot from us The first memories and…

Hour seven

The thunder claps did not bother, the pouring rain could not dampen our spirits as we frolicked on our first weekend as newlyweds we’ve come here before with the children and didn’t we tear our hair pandering to their every need now it’s different we’re…

A letter

Hi It has been a while Cliché but it’s all I have forty years is a long time I don’t know what to say I don’t know why I’m writing I don’t know why you care I know you want to know why I know…

Take Care

Dear Chile, Now, I did not want to come to you in this way. You know that I didn’t girl. The fact is that you don’t dream anymore so I can’t visit like I used to. Y’all think spirits are free. That’s what y’all think…

Hour 6: forgotten

Dear L, i didn’t know when you moved houses a few blocks further we’d never meet again not even by chance but that’s how it was do you remember how we guilt-tripped ourselves every time we scolded our children before school time and how we…

A Drop in Space

Earth is water spelled sideways, in a way… The way of poets. Being water encased in a mesh of flesh. Our minds sometimes a mess of less, less, less, lessons learned from watered down hag- splashing pointlessness. Her face without a trace of truth. Hags…

Dear Mimi’s Elegy

Dear MarianMonique LeVertaDeniece, (Mimi) I said goodbye to you years ago, but today, I found a need to say hello. Today humanity is living in a pandemic. I know you never heard of it. I wanted to tell you how much I missed you before…

Hour 5: Scholarly nail

Jetting into intense stupidity Mr. Sunflower gulped melted cheese – Cheddar creating space for a rusty nail in his satchel what a mystery whose mastery is yet to be discovered He nailed it!