The Sailor’s Maid
Upon my barque, I brave a foreign sea, and feel the foam that falls like mountain snow. Would one not …
Blackboard
With red hibiscus flowers plucked on the way there were days when we friends reached school before anyone’s trace; thick …
Out on the Porch
With practiced ease, Bob takes his sharpened blade and presses it against Jack’s auburn skin. He says that there’s no …
Invasive Bittersweet
I wink a thousand yellow rimmed and red eyes, where I twist and climb and from the rise will thread …
Blue Remembered Hills
skim a brittle frozen lake and dance into my heart again melt my mind with breaths of spring and lead …
A Shaming Cry
I heard the birded forest sing a song; a song of such compelling melancholy that all the forest dwellers sang …
Night Mare
A sudden start: I’m on a moonlit plain, up to my waist in gently swaying grass. The air is warm …
Beloved Guests of Life
Let the ardent sunlight stroke my eyelids, let the cooling breeze flow past my face. Let the glowing roses strew …