August 17, 2026
I swerve and swing down tar road glens — poplar built, storm-breath wet that brim with bark and coffee, melt fjords that flood Earth’s marrow…
August 14, 2026
You’re a threat heading off to school
with your wide-eyed innocence caught on film
Phones mistaken for guns
Kindness mistaken for rage
You’re a threat for being in the way
August 10, 2026
In your little hands, you grasp dandelions
Blowing them apart, letting them sail in wind
Your laughter follows as each little piece
flies far from your fingers, floating to the sky
August 5, 2026
I can’t come to the phone right now, I’m wrestling the tigers of indifference. I’m up to my waist in holy water. The sky is burning…
August 2, 2026
Lovers are the pears of perfection;
Without any fear in their souls,
They represent the essence of passion.
July 30, 2026
The moths have stopped circling the porch light, their wings now are as stiff as old letters. The night stretches thin — a slow dissolve of indigo into nothing…
July 28, 2026
We had just passed the Cat and Fiddle, right on the tops with a long, steep descent ahead…
July 26, 2026
The rain fell down, the marsh lay deep and wide, the small green singer raised his ardent plea — a pulse of life where hidden shadows hide, a call to join him in the waters free.
July 24, 2026
She sits in quiet disbelief at the table where cards are spread, offering her but scant relief from the sense of coming dread…
July 21, 2026
Living with you is living in a burning tower
Smoke billowing out the windows
as flames engulf all we built together
July 16, 2026
The comet is disappointing.
They promised, this time,
Bright and true, in daylight,
We’d see a trail half across
A bewildered sky.
July 13, 2026
Of fragile flesh they rise, then sink to clay,
Their moments framed by gazes keen and bright.
Adored they blaze, then slowly pass away,
Perhaps too long they lingered in the light.