Pastel Sadness
In a fatal blue fugue, she bruises the edge of an hour. She swallows the Evening’s clear cries of dark-dipping gulls flung across the sunken wound of Sunset. Her brash toes dissolve through the...
View ArticleWords Like Coins Jangling in a Jar
His meaning was sharp and swallowed, with words like coins jangling in a jar. “I’ve been out for nine days…”
View ArticleTired Sky of a December Storm
Wrinkle of pink sun Furrowed in a tired sky- Spider web shudders A prickly-pear claw Pecking at the bone-white path- A marsh mouse crossing Tangled branches crack- Black fury of starlings soar The...
View ArticleCoughing Crickets
Gasping moonlight signals through a cloudy ocean beard. Still bodies of flies and dragonflies glint, clinging to the cool, glass skin of dimming florescent lights. Beneath an orange orb of sodium...
View Article“Youth is Happy Because…”
Where raindrop shadows spill On a bed of rusting leaves- A Caterpillar sleeps With lemon dreams “Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty...
View ArticleOcean Static Fills My Ears…
Sibilant words Lumber off the sea Ocean static Fills my ears The dunes shrug Cicadas throbbing The scent of distant rain Hanging in a hammock Of gauzy wind Fingers probe Like crab claws In cold-packed...
View ArticleEvery Crushing Step
A humble path, furry with emerald moss and splashed in blue shadow. A shiny-backed beetle suns himself on a cold molar-sized stone, then shuffles off into a copper sea of leaves. So many roving feet...
View ArticleSpotted Only with a Magnifying Glass
She is spotted only with a magnifying glass, an animalcule with limescaled wings And a dusky face. Clinging to a breathing blade of dancing chloroplasts, she sees the fractals flash in a fury of...
View ArticleCraggy Fool
A hairnet of pink lightning Flames across glum skies Shadows saunter, charcoaling The Sea’s velvet skin October wind coos Across ruffled iron peaks The Brine percolates Each heaving sigh beckoning...
View ArticleA Brittle Wind…
Burring through scaly leaves Along the deer-stamped path A Brittle Wind begins As cobalt moonbeams Paw through knots Of cowering trees The wind wends Through strange limbs And mutilated hands-...
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