SPRING: The buds that unfold and grow, the dew that resumes at night, droplets in beams of light, dispersing remnants of snow. SUMMER: The skin on the back of your hand, the sunshine through the trees, the veins that pattern […]
Ode to My Elementary School
A pile of rubble, bricks and timber scattered on a plain. Some cluttered lines of trees alone is what remain. And weeds are sprouting through the waste uncaring and unkind. But then again – how could they care – does […]
Change and Perpetuity
I stand at the shore where the sea once was and I know not that’s how it is. I’ve looked at the oaks my entire life; they were here before me and they will remain. I stand at the shore […]
Child of the Unraveling
To a long lost friend My personal anachronism you – I’ll never understand. Your jumping, floating timeline seems completely out of hand Your looks tell me clearly That just like me you are a child of the Unraveling who bears […]
The Presence
You’re present here beside me you speak within my dream, you stir around me in the air like vapour in the steam Your voice I’ve known forever as much as I recall, and though I do not want you you […]
The Wasteland Where the Slaughterhouse Was
Overgrown with weeds, squeezed into place between apartment blocks – irregular in shape, a vast expanse of emptiness and plants – a little jungle in the middle of the city, framed by makeshift fences meant to keep intruders out (the […]
Fragile Dawn
Fragile Dawn – I barely see you as you shimmer through an eyelid halfway gone before you’re here, halfway gone while you are here – You bring promises with you that, forgotten, fade with you in the bittersweet gradient of […]
Awaiting Thunder
The heavy, humid feeling of something approaching yet not yet near enough to bring release. The pressure of the atmosphere, the heat, the irritation and the claustrophobia of the moment. You wait and wait and wait. But thunder comes whenever […]
The Thunderstorm’s Approach
The pressure in the air is full of birdsong. The heat declares its presence everywhere. The faintest smell of apple blossoms and of grass comes greeting through the window on the swell. The cooling breeze comes to caress my hair, […]
Flashback to Elementary School
In rainy weather I remember how she pulled over her head the wide hood of her black coat to protect her straightened hair so that she wouldn’t take the injury of curls undone by rain and falling to the wind […]
My Hair Falls
My hair falls in heavy waves like a red tide over my forehead and covers my eyes halfway – I should cut it, but if I did the parts your hands swam through would too be cut away.
Two Glass Shards
We used to be a bottle before we broke apart. Now we are merely glass shards moved by the ocean’s heart And if we once should happen washed up on the same beach we, by the sea’s erosion, can never […]
New Poem: “All Outside of Me and I Outside of All”
Watching tableaus change before my eyes – people moving, scenarios altered, everything now happens in a sort of vacuum – all outside of me and I outside of all. All outside of me and I outside of all I float […]
New Poem: “The Wait”
I waited for the snowfall but when it finally came the snowflakes melted in the air before they reached the ground and all remained the same. I waited for the sunshine but when I finally caught a beam it had […]
New Poem: “snow angels”
There was a girl with name unknown, her face was blank and blue her gown From where she came nobody knew and she disappeared like morning dew Vanished at the sight of sun its warmth could never reach her heart, […]