A cold in olden times Rests easy with Vicks VapoRub, Mirinda and SkyFlakes. In this, the present, A cold demands a drop of blood, Cold steel on your skin, a drug. And she sleeps, it’s winter.

Two directions traversed at once the map folded in half and deliberately marked Signposts conspicuously absent the face of the compass blank with the needle missing This is quite a journey   (22 June 2019, Hour Eight)

Land and sea, I traveled. Three lifetimes of laying foundations among the clay, with clay covered hands, far from shifting sands and tidal waves. My hand to the plow, my heart intent to see the bloom of change among the walking dead. But all efforts…

Hey, we need to take the dog for a mani-pedi. He really rocks that purple nail polish. I’m down for that. I’ve really thought about this. We need to create edible candles. I’m down for that. Oh! We need some garlic flavored jelly beans for…

‘We need to be here’, said my ex-husband’s new wife. ‘Can we come in? It’s been a long drive.’ He mentions the house, a quarter his, looks nice. “The kids put the lights up”, I try to surmise. “Your mother around?” She’s in Greece, I…

“We need to talk.” A phrase to chill the warmest blood. “We need to talk.” The peril of the neighbourhood To make male faces pale as chalk, Suburban couples shorthand code For “Mister, you done messed up good!” “We need to talk.” Prompt: Use “we…

We need to talk. We need to see. We need each other. We need a moment alone. We need to have faith. We need kindness. We need trust. We need love. We need the way we compliment each other. We need the feelings we share….

Ah, mister cat! Your secret fondness for sweets and treats did you in! Your 30 white horses fled the rough red hill. Would, that you could Grin without a grin?