Blackboard
With red hibiscus flowers plucked on the way there were days when we friends reached school before anyone’s trace; thick …
Category: Free Verse
Blue Remembered Hills
skim a brittle frozen lake and dance into my heart again melt my mind with breaths of spring and lead …
Tassels of Eternity
Poets were asked to sit with this quote and write whatever it brought to mind. Three of the outstanding responses …
Made
What are you, the Human, made of? / From the loving cup of the giant ammonite / the milliard glistening crystals of predatory lenses / the world-girdling scramble of the kelpie’s mane …
Ill-Fitting Finery
Seventeen seconds to seventeen years. The first expired as I mined for gold flecks sparkling in blue eyes, tick-tocking against …
Pietra Dura
Here is the closed blue eyelid of time you touch to make sure, to see. Through a flat window of …
Exiting the Trenches
We’ve been under house arrest for days, our gray-cloaked jailers, wispy-haired, roll their heavy carts overhead, jangling their keys, making …
Seeing in the Dark
Last night I wanted to climb the golden stairs and pour metallic confetti into clouds to mix with rain, surprising …