Naked DandelionI've cast down my splintered stars ( Read more... )

             Tall, dark, and handsome, wooden and full of life. His stiff brown coat was freshly polished. His teeth gleamed a perfect white. His voice was tuned and crisp as he sat quietly. He was tense, and intense. He dared hold his breath. His lap would soon be warmed. A light was poised and ready to shine upon him at the magical moment when a ( Read more... )

Arrest

A scissoring pain
shrieks, rips open her iron back,
nails her to the floor
        in an orange blur.
Stunned,
she falls like a coin of moonlight
        on silk.
No more will the bones allow.
She clutches a cup of sleep--
a promise of polished quiet
is a cherised possession.

Canopy

Under the clipped wings of grace
a desert's seeping veins
sprout weeds...
Coiling upstream of a brain drain,
this place lusts after
a mouthful of fresh talent,
abundant
as the nervous skin of a lake.

By mouthfuls
would desert seek to become ocean.
By oceans
are we hung up to dry.

Nothing stays here.
Nothing grows here.
Nothing lives here.

             Alice’s feet dragged small yellow socks across itchy carpet, halting in the family room, beside her piano. There, she hovered for a moment, trying to justify the treacherous upcoming act of practicing by staring straight ahead through crookedly-placed pink glasses. Half-gently, she lifted the heavy mahogany cover, and then slapped the ( Read more... )

Sometimes in darkness, the wind hanged itself for hours, hurling to suicide, surrendering breath to Night. Over the streetlamps, clouds caressed the moon with slivery fingers. I swung the garden gate. It clicked ( Read more... )

I must have been dreaming--I thought I felt his heartbeat just then ( Read more... )

Summer EyesThe sky was sweet ( Read more... )

Vampire RosesHe tucks me away in fields of roses ( Read more... )

RevelationUp, up, up over the sea-swept lives ( Read more... )