Digging to China
Poem Well I was digging my way to China, shovel and all, hands dirty with the past, with the miles of mud dug, displaced, disposed. I was digging my way to China when my...
Tagged: rebellion
On The Revisit
Spoken Word Hanging up the motive is harder Than breaking habits Braking at a stop sign From 50 to six miles At the drop of a dime Sets the teeth on edge Be...
Blossoming Terrors
Haibun The Japanese Maple grew in the center of 52 Holland’s front yard. Its long branches stretch to the sky like a petitioning priest. Its maroon foliage crowns the tree like a lion’s...
Immortality And Bliss
Poem I look up… hoping to see your face longing, to smile back at me… and your grace, your love to fill the missing piece. I know you’re there close yet far away....
Unacceptable Outcomes
Haibun AP Cherry informs me he can’t suspend Tavaughn. Instead, he removed him from our class for three days. He sounds sincere. But that insincere smile coupled with those tired wrinkles on his...
Winter Gloaming
Poem Winter gloaming has finally come, Bleak, pale days and frozen white nights. The leaves had whispered From forest to forest All through the endless summer days That winter was just a rumor....
The Solitary Ruin
Poem Without you My world Utterly Crumbled And collapsed Burying me Under Tons of Jagged pieces Of rubble. I am Crushed by the Weight Of Solitude more by KainThornn photograph by Jake Melara...
Northern Light
Poem The light was still ours. It leaked from your eyes And your smudged hand Remains forever poised over Blank sheet. Night is never ending In that, we can agree. What little sun...
Borrowed People
Spoken Word People walking in borrowed shoes on borrowed ground Will show no difference in the past or future of the universe in my life or another’s. Should I stand directly in the path...
Addictions
Poem Givens: things you can’t subtract -and those you won’t. Time was needle-sharp when new to separate skins. Each longs for unadulterated blood: the fresh pink veins of childhood’s girl, the blue of...
