Doors
I’ve been behind every door you can imagine. Tall ones, old ones, wooden ones, new ones. Ones in the basementContinue Reading
Category: Free Verse
The Silent, Lonely Woman
An homage to the first poem I read by william c. williams So much depends upon one silent, lonelywoman holdingContinue Reading
Swallowed, Buried Truths
I catch difficult questionsin the cracks on my lipswhere dust also settles I wipe them all awaywith a flick ofContinue Reading
The Immeasurable Distance
There lies a vastness an immeasurable Distance between you andme and the Truth I gaze intothe blackness, that divides usContinue Reading
Endings & New Beginnings
Just a little pain; a teardrop, really. No more than a light pinprick. Just a whiff ofdiscomfort; and then— theContinue Reading
You love/d me.
You knew mewhen I was smalland ugly, andless than nothing Still, you loved me. You transformed meand unfetteredmy eyes, soContinue Reading
Could-Have-Beens and Maybes
I’ve becomea sunken thing,a cancerous massof could-have-beensandmaybes I lie here…waiting…waiting…waitingfor theelectric-blue shock
The Shadows
don’t tell himabout the…shadows the black voidsthat hoverat theedgesof our bed don’t share your nighttimevisions with him Or else. it won’t help anything; ifthereContinue Reading
Anger, in Four Parts
Part 3: Disgust The smell of It; the acrid bileof It’s breathhas me feverishly itchingitchingitchingitching It’s very presencehas my skin crawling, writhingContinue Reading
Anger, in Four Parts
Part 2: Rage In the beginning… I AM: angry coils of Fear, Uncertainty, Guilt that wrap around my ribs likeangry snakes Afterwards…Continue Reading
