First Hour

Early morning, in the quietness of my mind, I see your luring light as the yellow lines pull me towards you. Still relishing in my unvarnished thoughts of you, pure honest The leftover night air begins to lift as I try to wrap this goodness…

Cloak of History – Prompt One

Opening ceremony so many new faces       so few old and recognizable ones.  The past rushing forward      slamming into us with a vengeance.  This is how she found us       “the past draped about us like a cloak.” (after Diana Khoi…

Hour One- Untitled

We have a chronic case of Right place, wrong time. Spending 12 years just missing each other. Just missing each other at the store, The bars downtown, The bed we used to share. Holding tight to the two years we got together.   I get…

Struggling

Struggling (prompt 1) ~   My beloved struggles hourly, his life parsed laboured breath by laboured breath. I listen/don’t listen, struggling myself wondering how long how long how long Like a heartbeat I hear it, the refrain: how long        how long        how long 3…