Like most things, you’ve lost your charm, but keep smiling and I’ll go home with you anyway. Or at least to your car where we’ll fog the windows and smoke your last cigarette.

There’s no valid explanation for her moniker. Perhaps the disaster of her male dress when high collars and long skirts were called for. Or her trek west atop horse, fearless where others were not. Credibility is called into question when alcohol scents female breath. Besides, we…

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…

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…

Familiar smile, tickling my heart, Have I known you? You notice me. Have we known us? Hesitantly, walking for each other, Breaths hitched – it should be obvious by now – Was it that we’d known each other in another life? In another time? The…