Dear Tod, Thought you’d like to know I’ve heard again from your friend the Nigerian prince, who’s vacationing in Saint-Tropez with my friend Shelly. I can picture them together — her dark curls and his, her vanilla flesh his chocolate — though his taste in…

Everything you have brought to life is thriving keep breathing soul into all things…. It is magic really, All that has become…. Given the time constraints  

The Carousel turns to a Melody Horses rear up against their reins, Frozen in a gallop that never ends As their prison turns and bends And twists their expressions While children and couples Ride on their backs as The Carousel turns to a Melody.

The heart pumps my blood; Yet causes me an ache when It’s your face I see.

Living as me, in a time when Fear ruled Just about everything I thought and did — It was A new experience When I Walked to school Under the pass, Heart clenched in terror At sights of Unruly branches and weeds Almost as tall as…

Happy Birthday, Kanaki. I’m two days late, But I will turn twenty-two On August fifteenth As you should have turned On August eleventh Sixty-three I would like to think that you simply Escaped And found A new life, a new family A new journey To…

Moonlight shimmered On sweat across her Breastbone that Rose and fell with The wind’s breath Flitting along the lake Under a netted canopy Sprinkled with stars that Sparkled across the Gleam of her teeth and Glisten of her eyes as I Beheld her glory in…

Home is a place that has never Existed for me A wanderer, a vagrant, Aimlessly drifting From Laos to Italy And though Home Has never been a label I’ve ever applied In these blue, twinkling eyes, You should see The world’s my oyster All for…

Where is there left to go when you’re neither neither nor nor? When you’re not allowed a name only a label? When you’re defined by what you (don’t) have instead of who you are? When confronted by the fact of your existence they’d rather you…

Heart singer, Night howler. Your love is unconditional, Your joy is boundless – It astounds me that there exists A creature with such pure Intentions, never meant to harm I love you, my Heart Singer You who can swell my chest At sight because all…