Just Let Me Be
Poem Crazy, wild, so weird! Things I am, it’s me, Oh, just let me be! Blind and deaf, so astray! No need to say I have to see, Oh, just let me be!...
Category: Poetry
The Game Of Freedom
Poem Things we want don’t stay the same because we are beings of change and solitude. It is hard to choose and fulfill the dream whilst excluding all the other paths we may...
Unknown Reflection
Poem I see a face so like mine Staring at my every move Asking me why it is That I do the things I do In those sullen stares I hear Disappointment for all...
Portrait – Part IV
Poem Up! She pushed. Up! She was still. A dead elephant. So still she felt the babe’s throbbing. They could do nothing. Her children, 5 and 6, fed and washed — she wept. Up!...
Untitled — Swearing Off
Breakup Poem I finally have to go Will I write you? Possibility will be on your side As soon as I make room with parting It’ll feel that uncomfortable sensation Of my warmth, still...
Last Laugh
Haibun Poem Sitting on a rock, cross-legged, I pretend to meditate. My eyes half-closed, hands on my knees fingers up, I keep repeating “ommm.” Even when he’s so far up the trail, I...
You Were Born Of…
Short Story I guess my being the only girl in the family, destined me to be a tomboy, sporting cutoff jeans with patches, slick backed braids and flat, knobby breasts. I believed back then...
Winter’s Midas
Self-Reflective Poem My chest feels like an emptied stone cave Nestled in the peaks of pine-ridden mountainside In which a giant, brown grizzly once hibernated But decided to finish his sleep months earlier...
Thirty Thousand Feet
Poem Infinitesimal fireworks pop like a silent flash from a lone diode light bulb. The craft carries on northward bound as I type on these electronic keys. The boy behind me has a...
Three Years
Poem The weariness shows, Time now slows, and life cripples Autumn lets out a sigh Incubating Ice Shelter all the loneliness Anesthetize me Our copulation Rain puddles that we drowned in This budding...
