It will be a bad Friday to see you cold- not much more than a week ago- we spoke. You laughed and drove my boy to the game- you were so very alive-helping me- as I dealt with doctors and knives. You brought sweets, though I still can’t eat – Your son could do no wrong in your …
Firebrand If I were a man, would I ask Does she do it for love- or just because she can? If I were a man, would strength be in my heart- or in my hands? How much can one withstand? It goes to follow, in Sleepy Hollow Heads will roll. A plane, umanned will crash-land …
Accident- When you see one who once long hated you, still does- and only helps you out of legal obligation quid pro quo- not of goodness, or swelling heart. now in torment themselves- broken injured, sick, staph infected,weak.. bones removed, though he can still make a fist. Is it my mercy that makes him now meek? Which …
70’s New and Unimproved Hell Mall They graze, material appetites to sate and once-over the mama gringa with White-Flesh-Hate Striped hair wannabe celebrities , fake cholo-ghetto baggy pants’d boys with no identity. Headless mannequins flaunt fabrics cheaply made, unmatching, piecemeal. Roths-Teen-TV anorexicwear that caters to the UnReal. Tables of Junk stacked on display. Stuffed animals. Pokemon. Disney. Anime. …
Haunt Me I thought you believed- That someone else died for our sins, so we don’t have to- yet there you are ! all day and now.. in the near distance, a shade. An overgrown spectre, still bigger than life, In death. I’m not afraid. Haunt me, for there are no real stoics here. In …
Attempts to Silence Us Will Not Be Recognized. Search for it. Identify it . Embrace it. Sanctify it. Place it. Hold it up to the light pray to it. There’s more than one way to skin this cat. How much of a push do you need – think about that. White man , …
Stake (written 10/31/07 ,dedicated to the witch burning victims) This can’t be happening. (Oh, but it is, it most certainly is) She did fight them- Bruised wrists, rope wrapped, bleeding- She knows this one too well, knows his eyes, he remembers the other things he took from her Satisfaction glints – a dead glee. The hood hides …
Close to the surface and in too deep. sink swim sink swim Pacing myself Holding my breath, in place. Suspended animation Oh how I want that sleep. ~ Did I love more than I was hated? If I could only undo this, but I’m wound too tight. The Road to Hell It is paved with good intentions- …
When the pain outweighs the fear Dies Irae- more tired than afraid. Cold sobriety of plain prayer, Is there anyone here? Baptism by fire , Into Hell I trespassed, yet even the wicked must rest, at last. I plead for faith to be restored, resurrected . The crown is heavier than expected.
I will be as opaque as milk glass, to your one- dimensional counter- clockwise Moebius Band- flat, non-orientable to any surface . 255 255 255 We are progress, sphere- wheel, movement. DNA double helix Stairway of Ascension We are evolution. Expect revolution. Agent of contagion, Opportunistic , Viral, Malignant- unoriginal at the cellular level. …
Dad, it was my mistake to think he would be like you, just because he wasn’t my usual type. You loved me since I was born. Maybe he never did. and now? Feel like a thief who can no longer steal nursing wounds that do not heal. Dressed in black yet still a bride. and …
Channon. Chris.Thinking of this Must open the window I feel the retching asphyxia of one who knows they were told a lie. Here, at the very end of the earth- It is still safe in one’s car… to cry. “Don’t look” says the boy. “close your eyes!” (in this part of the loop) she also …
Up from the hold I stagger forth He’s at the helm, we’re heading North laid to waste, so many lie dead We have wine, but have no bread.. So let us drink, try not to drown Ill tell you the story ‘fore Thor strikes us down.. Saxons ship I saw from shore Ran to my …
My husband stooped picked up the bag spun me round “You know this man?” I then shook loose his grip he who once was at least a friend The Norseman stepped between us then “She thought me dead I did come back but she was wed & with child Then talk spread through the land …
A gladiator of a woman she dreams of ruling new Empires by his side Sacrifices, a given as many tears as drops of blood are shed We run through fields as children sleep in their beds I will not become my enemy greedy grasping avaricious harpies all yet i still desire to win, the crown …
He was colors of nature, the sun, the sky in his hair and eyes I looked on him and felt my cold heart not warm but beat memory and thought pale as moonlight I dreamed him perhaps I saw more than was there clouds were gathering I felt him try to hold me yet he …
Was he a soldier or spectre? a vessel in troubled seas? like a sweet child without responsibilities, he appeared to me. Father,can you absolve me, please though I will not repent- nor weep for him, only for me. I’ve been brought to my knees there’s no dignity in this grief. The wound is deep though …
ours is not a tragic tale for I am with you bound to you through centuries and eons I lean and touched the earth today on the shore , my feet bare and knew somewhere you also touched earth infinitesimal original life forms, grains falling away also eons old caressing me I lie down covered …
Here all is salt water Iron becomes rust Fire burns hot blood runs thick I stood by the rails, the sea to soothe me The sky full of light of stars, the moon cast shadows rain in my eyelashes I knew then who had captured me Electricity surrounded me My hair bound back like a …
He has summoned me agian never fails,he likes routine. Shall I sing a song I ask.. Shall we dance? I do nothing, still he is entertained. Tap. Tap. Tap. go his boots- then his cigarette. He tells me things, though I never ask. He says “why not? people know we are together anyway”.. What part …
The Spoils of War 