midnight brings acceptable ( Read more... )

red wine
stains the bedspread
and your arguments

it sinks into you
like a soggy cracker
causing you to crumble

until you are tears
and an old memory
and silence between
the sighs

red wine
and a warm embrace

Vote Yes on Question 4 ( Read more... )

I'm staring at the computer screen. It's a white page with a paragraph at the top. In a blink I am becoming a part of the screen, and my hands are no longer connected to my body. A blink later my heart is pounding and I forget to breath. Did these things happen at the same time? Breath, Tamreh, breath. A blink later I imagine myself passing out, ( Read more... )

Swallowing the Sky Between Your Legs

He takes my hand and we take the

wet grass beneath our feet

beneath the sky tickled with stars.

Behind us yellow light slashes

the damp courtyard. Laughter

and a disco ball play with

popcorn and mini skirts.

My heart speaks loud enough

for the both of us. A stone wall

finds are bodies and my hands

find his ( Read more... )

Fun with verbs ( Read more... )

friday mornings in the library

i am a guilty cinnamon bun
and coffee in your veins
feeding on potential
i complicate your gain

warm autumn chill ( Read more... )

Yes or No on Question 1?

UMass and Amherst are inundated with VOTE NO signs. The assumption of  course is that public schools will suffer a major blow, they will receive less state aid. This is the concern overall, that public facilities/projects will lose their budgets. While this seems like an obvious problem, there's always more to the story.

The ( Read more... )

I've been having sensationally provoking dreams lately. There's one theme that has been re-occuring. I reality-travel. It's like time-travel, but instead of staying in one place and going to a different time, I simply enter a new reality. There's always the transition from the now, to this new exciting place. What marks the experience most is the ( Read more... )