Wheeze

6 Nov 20176 Nov 2017

He sighed in completion. I lay, clutching blankets. (waiting for a crescendo) ------------But Instead I (in stale disquiet), while he sleeps peacefully, am lulled to a sullen ennui. Malcontent with…

Til Death Do Us Part

30 Oct 201730 Oct 2017

  I am with you because the looks I will get, if I sit alone in a movie theater, are worst than how little you make me feel. I am with…

Manic Creative

24 Oct 201724 Oct 2017

Getting past the first word Then the second- Then the third- Then the fourth- ........until the whole point ....................is about climbing ............................the wall, which ................................was never a wall, ................................but merely…

WW: Devour

21 Sep 201721 Sep 2017

Outside the window Her back is pressed against glass Which is Pressed against another's chest. She reads. Unknowing of her lean , The openness of her face To watching eyes,…

WW: “I hope you Dance” (Poem)

30 Aug 201730 Aug 2017

   Shape of this dance is killing thighs,  and feet, and swan shaped hands.     Punctured lungs, stabbed to death with  breath, break ribs and dance.   Sure, black…

Wandering Wednesday: Starts Here

23 Aug 201723 Aug 2017

Eclipse  A once in a lifetime event ends like this with clouds in abundant objection. The moon shares a kiss brief, light lips ten minutes, gone is the eclipse. A…

Burnt (2013)

17 Apr 2017

I hold the ember in the cup of my hands the uselessly toiling fingers are- Kindling. No longer able to beat out rhythms on an unyielding earth- I hear the…

Clock Watching (Draft)

16 Mar 201716 Mar 2017

Nothing comes at this hour. Only the fear of what will be. What will this hour hold? Will it be kinder Then the careless way I have let the last…

Satiated Sleep (help me sigh)

27 Feb 201727 Feb 2017

Give me a reason to stay awake. Pour secrets into my ears, run your nails along the peaks- and valleys of my breast. Steal my breaths between stories, locate my…

Bullet point poetry (draft)

23 Feb 201727 Feb 2017

who am I? the question circles the toilet bowl, gets clogged in the sink. congeals with last nights dinner on paper plates. is forgotten with pennies in the couch cushions. collects dust…