Category Archives: POETRY

Here the light’s a different shade; veiled, a whore’s red scarf grown dusty on a lampshade paints the walls with sex to dim the glare. An aqua boa slinks coiled around the bedpost, feathers frayed at edges once sharp and … Continue reading →

The morning feeds the cynical even as we shield it from the sun with hands held up in hope like leaves of the banana tree wide, long, thick enough to muffle shouting into whispers that, frail and fine, disappear in … Continue reading →

She walks on wind and leaves a footprint on the breeze that blows beneath my house. I wake and follow her, the trail like petals scattered round magnolia trees where only summer memory turns the silver branches back to blossom.

The day begins with a big yellow-toothed grin, snaps a branch off into a paintbrush, and strokes green leaves onto trees that cast doubt on the sidewalks still cold from the smothering night.

Laughter trills like water streams above the rock and mud of beds; love gets over itself. She shakes her hair back like she’s seen the models do; it’s not the same and yet for one fast beating of her heart, … Continue reading →

Irrational Fears Not born of sheltered privilege, nor pearl abused by father, brother, mustachioed hardened uncle, or a mother pecked by a pelican in her ninth month of bearing, or borne by ghosts and grown in rooms dark for lack … Continue reading →

To conceptualize ponder carve the wheel, not knowing that it will take a man to China. Content with ease of burden, speckled rocks or blood-fresh pterodactyl. Dreams that go beyond their maker like a glistening spider web or A homely … Continue reading →

Aspirations in An Unknown Space Fishnet-stockinged manatees dance salsas in their dreams while laughing dolphins flipper neatly  through white clouds. Sharks nest in the highest boughs  of  weeping pine tree tips  and lone tuna write their poems in caves   … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The stars, with broken egos, conspiredto plead their need to shine,and so relenting, the woman sweptthe clouds away and woke the sun. Continue reading →

"Safe voyage," I wished herand green as her wings,I envied the flash of her flight "I am not free as you,"she replied in a whirof a moment where she hung like a kite in the sun "For I am set … Continue reading → Continue reading →