Moon Set

Bright moon, you will set soon, dawn will bathe the eastern sky in pinks oranges and yellows. This is your week of growing to full, so the lunacy pull will be stirring up and down the crazy spectrum. I see you smiling in the sky…

I Bid You Farewell – Poem 16/24

I bid you farewell, dear Friend I just came from a meeting Found out about betrayal   With “friends” like you I don’t need any enemies You’re a crappy example Of the meaning of “friend”   Don’t ask any questions And you’ll hear no lies…

Rebroken

One million chances to try to make it right To my shame, the results the same I cried another night.  

psalm 1

I thought God was going to be here I set the alarm, and everything this is how psalms get started

Purple Reign

Red and blue lights flash together Melding to purple as they come through the faux fine glass in our front door. Nothing more common than a traffic stop, Here where six lanes of Brush Street Parallel the chunk of I980 Connecting Grand with the Exit…

SENRYU

He garnished it with parsley sprinkled it with salt but it was still whattheysaid.   I wanted his thoughts raw.

MISDIAGNOSIS

I can’t compare myself to Sleeping Beauty but I might say I’m like her castle buried by an intricate maze of thorny symptoms that incestuously feed from each other but maybe I’m the princess – buried somewhere inside the chaos in a tower that doctors…

The Place

There is something I need to say about this place where I live Not the structure that protects my head from rain This body, my living frame that I live in each day It follows me everywhere that I go It is broken and tattered,…

INSULIN RESISTANCE

This is what happens when you let yourself go greasy fries and Coca Cola processed foot saturated fat sugars   -that’s what they judge when they see you not the hours at the gym sweat, tears, menu restrictions visible torture summarized by two words: insulin…