Kaleidoscope memories.

There’s a thin line between who I am and what I am. Am I the one you think of when the rain washes down your window? Am I the reason you stay up at night? Am I what the poets call hurricane? Am I the…

Kaleidoscope

Summer colors mixed with winter lights swirling apexmesmerizing vortex of mirrors held to the child’s eye as he slowly turns it so the colors fold themselves in on unending varieties of patterns of wonderment.

Hour Seventeen- Black and White

  here they come again, mocking me, dissing me, taking a jab, creeping onto me.   jealousy is a black and white game. to black, white always seems like a weakling. the sole purpose of black is to extend its callous ends, to consume the…

Hour 17

I arrive and no one moves, sweat drips down their necks. I am the heat, hitting people like a wall and they are frozen, The room is a loud orange, uncomfortable chairs lounge around and on the glass table stands a cold beverage slippery because…

Hour 17: batter-fry

Batter-fry Take one woman, docile Add liberal doses of harsh treatment, preferably, in the first few months/years of marriage. Harsh, how harsh? Hmm, comments like, late from work again, flirting with your colleague, didn’t your mother teach you anything, housework first, children first, husband first,…

Broken Record (hour 17, prompt 17)

Just like a broken record My heart skips out your name Every time you cross my mind Like so many childhood games He loves me, he loves me not Daisy petals on the floor And, like a broken record, I can’t take much more Every…

Hats off Old and Rusty

Old and rusty Towering the bookshelf usually Once, writers can’t live without Now, won’t even be given a glance But this typewriter is to me A patriarch of our history A boss, a godfather a king of all who wrote of words, of poems, of…

Old Photos

Yikes! How can I make my family photo albums? I thought it would be easy. Take a picture and download, edit, print. Easy. Then, I found Undeveloped film Negatives CD’s Kingston sticks Now what? What do I do now? If you can help me with…

My Radio

Carved box Undervalued box Closely pushed off the walls of relevance, Over to the side of extinction. Man has find several sources of News report, & the radio is at the bottom Of the list. A very long list, candidly. Soon, no more ‘radio reports’….