Belief floats beneath the surface of your hardened brow, a jellyfish suspended in viscous fear. Adorned may be your arguments, yet hope whispers nothings into logic's ear. Earth tilts, leaves fall, geese flock towards warmer bays. You stumble, numb, down weathered trails: the future dreams of yesterdays. One season more may be all required to… Continue reading Stilting
Category: light
escape
what am i doing still writing between these lines going page after page as if some direction emerges out of thin air to guide me out of the darkness and uncertainty instantly landing me in a poppy field like the rolling hills around the emerald city where all the different parts of myself converged just… Continue reading escape
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
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
Outbreath
Her chill has lost its jagged edge, no more to tear into the bone. Her breeze sighs sprightly tenor trills, now muted Winter’s baritone. Her sunbeams practice pirouettes on dew that blankets grass and stone. Her scent releases fertile notes that herald Mother’s swelling thrown. She rises, ringing bells of bliss that carry ‘cross the… Continue reading Outbreath
