I am not dainty I spend 5 minutes a month Doing what I call my makeup And my dresses don’t fit So I mostly wear jeans and shit   I bite my nails to the nub And I’m always burning my tongue On words I’m…

Got lost today Hopefully to find a new way A way through darkness To the light A way that flowers grow Swaying in the wind   I left prepared for the journey Everything I thought if needed Would be within arms reach Now I’m here…

Star light, star bright A million tiny points of light Scattered ‘cross a velvet sky Like a jewelry store just seen at night There’s light in every darkness If one just looks to see I know a thing or 12 about this Because there’s a…

Rise and fall- the rhythm of life I hear her mellow breath By my side. The room is dark Not quite black For in my palm An enchanted rock Glows blue white Fighting against the darkness Encroaching, shrouding My weary face Saggy eyes Ruffled, tousled…

Come, dust my eyes. Sleep I cannot find. Swallow the bitter, powdery lumps of violent truth, as night descends. Fickle favor forsaking me. Rail against ironies, injustice, isolation, self-pity. Plead my case on golden streets in vain.           “Hear I am!…

before darkness before darkness : the rush & bustle : the sirens : the tunnel vision : the tap tap tap of 10 million keyboards : the conferring media : spin cycles : PR exercises : racing rodents : the tabloid’s blood : the dog…

Before darkness was known… There was only light! Yet darkness was shown; As to illuminate the night. Before darkness was dark… It made all creatures blind. They heard the singing of a lark; And heard only words of the kind. Before darkness was named; It…

A lifetime of thoughts happens In the minutes, sometimes hours Before I close my eyes The worlds that never were, But might be – if I write them down The morning after, or even now If I reach for the notebook by the bed The…