Dream Writing

I had a dream I wrote a poem. Inspired and fluid. Excited, I stopped to read it. To relive what I’d done. Realizing as I searched that it was gone. Never here really. Just penned in my sleep. Vertigo. I remember. Earnest. True words. And connection. A shared meaning understood. Bright blue electricity snaking. Images […]

Hope Is For Cowards

When you’re wishing for something that will likely not happen But try anyway … You hope. And when it ultimately fails, you can say I had hoped … And then consolation from somewhere deep, nearby, far away. When you’ve wanted, dreamed, dared But don’t actually say it will happen … You hope. Hope is for cowards. […]

A Conversation With Myself

What’re you doing? Get back! Don’t worry. I’m fine. I know what I’m doing. What if you don’t? And this all ends badly? Nothing will ever happen or become if I’m too afraid to try. Reconsider. No. No? You don’t know what’s going to happen. You don’t know how this will turn out. Everything you’ve […]

Finished Yet?

When can I be done? When we have enough to be finished. But when will that be? I’m tired. My fingers hurt and my back is sore. I’m sorry, sweetie, but we don’t have enough to be finished. But … Quiet, now. Complaining won’t get it done any faster. Why are you crying? Hush. Let’s […]

Goals

I really wanted to But, There was a wall, a mile high, smooth with no handholds. A fence, running long, draped with razor wire. It was a mound of dirt, insurmountable. A blade of grass, quaking in the wind. It couldn’t be done. Not overcome, curbed, conquered, or defeated. It was a snail trail. A crumb. A casting […]

On Solitude

It’s true. Single file one will travel, But only if they choose. Jade may be and bitterness free, Eyes bore into the globe in front of you. Still – If I’m not mistaken, these aisles run side by side. Rows upon rows with no singular distinction, More tapestry warp than train. Cling hard and fast […]

Come and go

A number of things come and go Illness, pain, tears Laughter, loss, love Some say, “They come when they’re ready and go when it’s time.” Others believe you make it. I say, one cannot be without the other. You work hard make it and it finds you when you’re ready. You struggle hard to release it […]

Monsters Drive By

Sunny day or perhaps with clouds Rain and maybe wind Calm travel Stop at a light Turn left or Turn right When I glimpse it Terrible Teeth Mouth stretched wide Silent screaming Eyes peeled back Terror strikes I shriek Monsters Least suspected Just so briefly Mouths still closing Back to normal I’m still shaking Fright […]

A Move to the Woods

I’d like to go for a walk in the woods A forest A grove A riverbank A valley A wet grassland A secluded marsh Along a fallen log I would find a tree and climb it And sit for awhile See the plants The birds The insects The amphibians The mollusks The mammals The reptiles I’d […]

Deny

Creaking floorboards Announce my arrival Flickering lights Announce my intent Empty halls and silence Greet and dismay But I am A willow Bending back But never snapping And A stone Falling fast But never cracking Because I believe