Junk Drawer
…But here it was
a box of epithets typed
in mysterious symbols,
a pile of hurts
drawn from the drawer
Category: Shorts
The Giant Arc
We are poetry in motion The Giant Arc A serendipitous discoveryBends the cosmosOnce spunAtop the head of a pin A curtain of galaxies hemmed to the black Curves into a smileYou’re here Welcome to the pointA way station, a rest stopa long space and time Before moving on Beyond where star gasesOnce so compressedExplode to ignite What stands betweenthe possibility […]
Read More The Giant ArcWeight
Losing count
eyeing the scarred mixing bowl
mentally calculating weighty things
the mound of white
keeps quiet
A Ladder to Saturn
Poking fingers trembling into the void of reason…
Read More A Ladder to SaturnThe Wine and Watercolors Event That Went South
A shaft of sunlight barrels through the glass and slams into the side of Caroline’s face. It glances off her ruddy cheek without apology…
Read More The Wine and Watercolors Event That Went SouthMind Your Thumbs
How to get right when you’ve been wronged…
Read More Mind Your ThumbsLines
These are not new lines…these are ancient fissures…
Read More LinesA Clean Slate
Dusk’s murky aura outlined the water tower while the sun glared defiantly at the horizon. Cornfields bereft of their cobbled bounty waved mournfully back to…
Read More A Clean SlateA World To Save
‘…this broken world needs you
much more than it does us
we’ve cause her too much damage
squandered all her trust…’
Missing Pieces
‘I don’t mind a little darkness
but I’ve had more than there’s a right to be…’
