Lost The years dropped off like brittle leaves, crab-walking sideways in scuttle, windblown and pocked. I heard the crunch underfoot, on peppermint gum splattered sidewalks, dusted in yesterday’s hopscotch. Freckled moons have lit the way home and I return tired... Continue Reading →
The Only Sound Cacophony is a reminder, we exist. I search for the Sun ray behind it. Wherever I find, I find it with a stretch and stretches are never sad - Smiles at you; at me and that, the... Continue Reading →
Baby Teeth I knew this brave, brave boy through his mother's Facebook posts. She's my husband’s second cousin, worlds removed. The pain malignancy inflicts traverses time and space. It lingers like stale smoke, and hides behind the cheerful poses, brightly... Continue Reading →
The Kiss ++++++ “a kiss ++++++ on the lips of an invisible god ++++++ love ++++++ just in time to save us” +++++++++++ -disembodied poetics They were all saved by it, She and the bird and the boy and the... Continue Reading →
Parent-Teacher Conference (en Espanol) If I hadn’t heard those words, if I hadn’t seen them in black and white (because sight is a very powerful sense) and the translator hadn’t sobbed while explaining what “things at home” meant, if I... Continue Reading →
Fire Walk I fall through the ice where your collarbone cracks. The deepest wound is just below the rib where the breathing stops. Sheep run down the mountain in cumulus clouds that shield the body of fire with the mystery... Continue Reading →
Poetry Breakfast 