This is a lucky place thought I as I sat in obscurity.   I recall no beginning can fathom no likely exit.   I am, simply with a vision housed in the noble envelope a treasure uncertain of its form gently inviting to the traveler.     Senses beyond the earthly realm shedding the obsolete particles... Continue Reading →

New issues, new dissections, but old directions, still hitting into the same sea of likes and dislikes, can I at least downvote this status into an oblivion beyond all the smiling false faces? My only headway is in the anthologies of others, no spotlight, just another position juxtapositioned on a live stream where everything amounts... Continue Reading →

She’s going into prostitution when she’s 18, she brags. Daddy broke her down like a puzzle, and she leans all her pieces against Wesley whenever he stands still. She writes on his hand, property of,  in felt tip pen, which he shows me days later. I avoid her eyes as we pass each other in... Continue Reading →

So, all this feeding. Kisses come to mind. And mouths have teeth. The vampire wakes, and rouses with it appetites as old as friends. A melody, or sacrifice of self: the only things that make me cry. So sadness, being beauty’s daughter, tells me why I eat: to fatten on the world, to hope that... Continue Reading →

It always smells of someone who has lost tomorrow or else strongly scented cheap perfume. Perhaps it is because I take the stairs as a kind of morning punishment. Still at 3:30 am when the television finally renounces me, it is a way to encounter the human hazards like myself who swallow their particular current... Continue Reading →

Some of us suffer insult after death. Like stammering Uncle Bob, who died of cancer after my wild-eyed sister welcomed him to stay. His chance for a friend, she rebelled against their mad clan of mean drunks, disloyal liars, and butcher-knife siblings shunning him for serving time twice for theft. He painted her portrait with... Continue Reading →

This wound That holds your heart Ransom with pain Resonates out to each of us Who care so deeply For your wellbeing. Promises of light Etch like scratches on A frozen window pane Indistinguishable, inconsolable Inconceivable. Yet we know and we wait For more moments Of filtering light That lingers hope for more than Mere... Continue Reading →

That shifting pile of grains, my lifetime of decisions, leads me here: Too late for “now.” Only “then” and “when” in the toolbox. What to build with that? What to fix? How well have I learned to use these tools? How many scars, misshapen nails along the way? Sitting back is more uncomfortable than I’d... Continue Reading →

Waiting to be released from the ward, I play ping pong with Wesley. We are laughing, I keep missing the ball. I’m surprised at his patience with me. A social worker calls him away, when he returns he’s pale. I see him slide down against the wall, arms wrap around drawn-up knees. His head down,... Continue Reading →

You have the innocence – no doubt about it – and your beauty’s long been welcomed into the orbit of my eyes. And then there’s the simplicity –             the deceptive kind,             like with your docility             (somewhat misleading)... Continue Reading →