I couldn’t quite find the words as we sat together around the table, looking hopefully into our kins’ eyes. So differently our tongues curl. Our gardens keep asynchronous calendars. Our suns rise and fall several degrees apart on the Earth’s dial. We conversed in search of the shared story. I could not find the words… Continue reading Eugene
Author: Dani Doucette
Spotlight
Here is where I started, and here now return, wondering once more whether I particularly care that no one sees me here. What do they know to notice? The quips and cries, the intellect, the heart, the acts of fearlessness? All this they see, have seen, and recorded pale impressions of a wounded lioness on… Continue reading Spotlight
Leora
The broken path again made whole leads on to days long past, and yet you stagger sideways, chasing dusty dreams and truth to soon forget. This moon you break your treacherous ruse, committed now to blind return home. Hearthstone cold, a lingering scent of Hope, too dry to ever burn. Fear not the road to… Continue reading Leora
Always
a Lily under shade peers south and sees the distant showers of light striking merry waves and glistening on beating wings beneath the matted garden bed her roots feel out and down, deep down, but lose the race toward remnants of the rains Coreopsis taunts and flaunts nearby, knowing a longer morning sun that glows,… Continue reading Always
Wolf
No one else perceiving - I see my chance to enter here and to leave behind my happy puppet prince No one else believing - I step beyond the rocky wall climbing earthen curves (my secret ever since) No one else achieving - I breathe in hazy green light that melts together my heartbeat with… Continue reading Wolf
