To be. To feel. To experience that which is unimaginable in truth. To pretend, and say these words without thinking, yet meaning each one. The art of the play, of drama, of comedy, of tragedy brings to view what others never want to live: an…

“I am begging: Let me be lonely but not invisible.” – Natalie Diaz To be alone Can be lonely To be invisible Is to be nothing at all

I touch feline fur, and feel the deep purr it makes my heart whir then beats in rhythm with her.   Holding soft anole my heat warming its cold how is it though they feel no temp at all?   Still, they always crawl and…

You taste like a promise kept. All you can eat without regret. You sound like a song unsung but one desired by everyone. You feel like home to me inside your arms I’m safe and free.

Who needs a kitchen timer? I smell it when it’s done! The crack of fresh sourdough as it pops to full life, bulging the air with fresh bread. The perfect pie, and just browned aroma calling for oven mitts. Medium rare steak, perfect chicken, all…

To my son, I hope that you are happy And that you are always able to know what that is Stay out of trouble if you can But go into it if you must Know that I don’t care who you love As long as…

In autumn when leaves blanket my yard I hope unlike most others for rain before I rake The added mess of raking wet leaves is much preferred for it hastens their decay and olfactory air Intoxicating I inhale my youth forest floor of Hanson’s woods…

I swear, what was written tastes better than apple served by the hands of a lover. I know men who mistook their stupidity for cleverness. I am against nothing but a man who doesn’t feel the end of this poem as the end of a…

True love never dies and so my light burns everlasting for you, my one love. Did you love me? Oh, how I loved you. I know I loved you, music man, thirty years hence in my dreams. Do you think of me? Each day you…

The sounds so muffled for so long Are now becoming clearer Distant voices unheard before Echo coming nearer I hear the sound but have no sight No voice no movement can I make My breath does not come on its own These breathy sounds are…