Along the Bones
Free Verse Poetry See them as they race through the sinews and along the bones Interwoven with their preordained infrastructures ill-afforded them by freedoms Products of existing where they were born and expanded...
Category: Poetry
Kish and My Left Foot
Poem O, sister of my heart You are no longer the Deviation of my mind The purge in my sole Or the ivory footsteps You walk alone in Midnight skies along Trees that...
The Life Theatre
Poem It breaks my heart to see you in pain, unhappy, tired, inanimate like a puppet on strings held by this marvellous creature of sorrow. The scissors are lying on the floor. Too...
A Great Way to Displace Unwanted Matter
Poem about Memory Fume Fret Fumble over hands that fail to pay attention where needed Yesterday we all but shared Tonight stand alone is the order Fumble Easy words stick in the throat...
Seventh Annual Fun Run
Haibun Poem Parents in T-shirts and shorts herd their hyperactive children to the starting line. We ignore the green-shirted volunteer speaking through a bullhorn. Other volunteers attempt to corral us to one-half of...
You Were Born Of… – Part Four
Gangland Stories While intently listening to them cheer and brag about their heinous deeds, my right foot fell asleep and slipped off the stall door, making a loud noise. Instantly, the Decepticons or...
Barcelona: Matriarch
Barcelona opens its arms and you suck it all in. The music in the bars is the only English you’ll hear: A familiar sound is the espresso poured alongside beers. Pounding sangria at every...
Piece of Nothing
Poem The world belongs to the living… Now you are far away from home, the home you never had, and as your presence turns to stone, I’ll never call you “dad”. Now you...
Blood at the Rodeo
Short Poem The wild southwest has been a savior and a damnation. So sparse, so surreal and even in the squalor. The life I live is a lie and in this desert it...
