The arms of the ocean
When the arms of the cold empty ocean are my only consoling caress, and the wide open sky encircled by …
Category: . Introspective
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 …
Reduced to Ecstasy
Within me beat opposing hearts.The blood in one is light and life the other baleful, dark as death. I am …
Dear John
he gave me a nodding dog (the sort you put on the shelf of the car’s rear window) because he …
The Poet
I sit beneath this lonely willow treeand know, somehow, its tears are shed for me. That something still can weep …
Suitable
I’ve hung myself in the closet. Not from a noose, but on triangular wire amongst the other me’s I need …
In the Shadow of Jupiter’s Ghost
I was once a ring, shining and smooth, and I rolled like lightning in the night casting Zeusian sparks in …
I Watch Her Eyes
I watch her eyes as she does mine, To see which one of us will blink, And force us both …