Out of… (Ordinary’s Reckoning)
Deal… deal, deal, deal Come, be a perfect excuse to stay outside fear’s halo shhh! On your tiptoes, now plie, demi-point turn toward blackened fireplace blow kisses in cold air while suitable mates trudge...
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The Sand Pear
The sun has descended Jersey’s belly as I climb the hill to home. A cold front presses Liberty Street. An old woman flaps beneath a flood of light like moth stripped of a wing...
Jelly Bean Spirit
A bright crisp breeze of happiness fills my chest, filling the specific corner that usually aches. Jelly bean spirit kisses. It’s a ridiculously sunny day today, makes me feel all is right in the...
From A Life to Sanctuary
Free Verse Poems My hungry mouth brought your milky breast, oh, what ecstasy the silky flesh affords My father’s straight white teeth glistens like pearls in my eyes as he lifts my small...
The Baker, The Butcher and The Brewer, Part One: The Baker 11
Serial Fiction Archibald took Anton in for a few introductory days of leisure to a guesthouse in Southern France. He always had a smile on, took everything light and made it lighter. His calendar was...
Avoiding Cliches
He approached me after the reading, a leather satchel over one shoulder and a sizeable chip on the other. He said, “I reeeally liked your work, but don’t you think that it would be...
Animal Dilemmas – Sheep Snail
Short Story Spring came and melted away all the grey from the rocky hill. The Snail woke up and un-wedged itself from in-between the two boulders, climbed the taller one and took a wide...
Three Sisters Are We: Part Two – Daphne
The bites on my legs. On my chest. His feverish tongue… Ugh, those vampires! The memories from our time on that pirate ship had seized my focus, an essential quality at a horrible time...
Validus (The Lyric of Apollo)
Arise! All shall hail, raining down the great mountains, the Olympian gale, pouring gold-plated bounty from its bright crystal mouth, and its noise and its glee SOARS!…BURSTS! Down it sails through the air yellow-orange,...
Don’t Sweat It (World #3)
From the baggage claim onward, things are different. He thought it would feel like a vacation. Although he was present for reasons far beyond poolside mixed drinks with a side of gossip and over...
Glass Heart
Benevolent fingers of vivid dreams… master at avoiding things. Surprised to see another day, though still live in disarray. Hostage of time, relentless past. Specks of glass mirrors beauty like pieces off a mask....
