splintered wood easel needs sanding and the coarse, fine haired brushes need cleaning but the sky is wrapping itself in cloud boas and the lamp travels the horizon splashing maroon, cherry and various levels of the fire spectrum in chaotic sugar streams across the waves,…

The day is filled with joy and laughter Children are running around the compound with careless abandon The women of the house roam the garden and stop to smell the flowers The drizzling rain envelops leaves   The rain increases its intensity and turns into…

Night has always been so boring unless you touched my body, where your cuddle is soothing makes my heart hooting. The night brings screams of love you kiss me most, the way hate is lost. Flight is your and mine I want all nights just…

Waking up under red curls, hot breath and thrown, tiny bodies.   Little rag dolls.   The fur of dogs rising and falling over my pillows.   Joshua Tree Breakfast Bliss coffee.   Chocolate for breakfast.   Bob Dylan.   Mountains, rivers, farms or beaches….

Is this Tin Man’s heart? Carved from bleeding wood for chest Sad beats burden breast

Celestial sky still water like deep crushed velvet as above so below what am I but a firefly enamored by your mysteries

Toes in the sand waves crashing into the sea warm sun slight breeze children playing splashing a strawberry basil popsicle cold and sweet falling asleep in your arms warm and safe

We share the same name and many of the same ways I see your features when I look at my face You were a proud dad but with demons Parted for portions of my childhood with you in prison Yet away or with me I…

Perseid’s Shower Submission #5 Ann WJ White We laid on our backs. Lake Itasca, the beginning of the Mississippi parkland. A family waiting for the dusk to transmogrify into night full of stars and silence. Waiting for meteors to travel at thirty-five seconds per mile…

Light spills into the gap between here and gone yesterday and tomorrow what is, and what will be. Walk the illuminated path to the other side. When you get there, turn and wave. A recognition of the distance you’ve traveled. A greeting to those walking…