SOUL-RESTORATIVE

You are part and plenty, sunshine and illumination, warmth and radiant clarity.

LETTING GO

I blink, want to shutter my eyes, not sure what elseTo say. No words penetrate my mind. I’m uncomfortable.I need to let you go, but you refuse to release your grip,So I remain. Tender loss perambulates, quickens my heart,Entrenches me in grief as if you died, but you sit before me.You demand something, a splint […]

I REMEMBER

I remember the heat of him as he’d push up against me, gin-fouled and smelling of Camel Wides.

MOMENTS OF STILLNESS AS BIRDS SING

Moments of stillness, when all things settle, like the vibrations of a small boy falling asleep, movements cease.

Time Spent with Friends

Time spent with friends, some new, some familiar—talking, listening, laughing, crying—here we are together, a promise given to me some years ago. To live this life with these friends, to walk this journey with them, with you, I know I’ve been blessed to experience such a life, one worth living, worth witnessing. Gratitude I’m told […]

Translucent Presence

Our translucence is present And viable. A puzzle piece standing vigil, Secured in the corner, similar to glue. Quiet and tall as sacred totem poles do In the night as wild beasts pass. We say little, Displaying nothing other than a heart. Wind pushes cold air. Clouds billow Overhead laden with rain. A storm rumbles and shrieks, […]

WICKED, WICKED NIGHT

Masks and frightening costumes,
scaring friend and stranger alike.
Stringed glow sticks, bulbous spiders,
spindly legs, warped goblin heads,
rotten teeth, foul breath.

THE LATE WINDS OF AUTUMN

Horizontal winds blow, invisible,
scissoring through trees and yellowing grasses.