Send me on a journey to nowhere, a one-way ticket out of here. Home I carry with me, so it doesn’t matter if I return. Coming back this way might be more painful than the leaving. Knowing not where the path will take me, seeking new adventure…

Some part of me is empty Barren I have far too much space for the thoughts to uncontrollably invade. Night time is the worse of times And daytime silence is unbearably quiet To be reminded of a young love not requited. Waves of fire wash…

I am camouflaged behind a mound of hair. In this small car speeding across town, I battle the rapids of roaring rivers and shatter into millions of diamonds in their cascading falls, or elbow the sheer waters with a spidery grace. I stalk the Appalachians…

The first boyfriend I lived with had a CD single of “Love Will Tear Us Apart Again.” For two years, he and I had a pattern. He wrote at his computer, a bag of grapes nearby. I came home and made our dinner salads, and,…

HOUR FOUR-   8.45am: At Subway Waiting for the train with a cup of coffee, salted bagel and a book in my hand. I peered around me. People of all sorts, shapes, sizes and with different appetites wait. To reach their destination. My stare now…