Tag: 2023
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The Exorcism of Rain
The rain is nature’s best exorcist. Look how it cleanses everything it touches,how the harshest of pavements, sharp as a…
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Gypsum Hills
* Photo by Ryan Clark The gypsum hills of Old Greerare great turtles with backsof green and dug inwith red…
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Dancing Under the Moonlight
Mayhem as she sways,her dress sewn from silkas she floatsso do her curves.A woman with storiesetched in her bones,shape shifters…
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The Names of Things
I want to tell you how the white horse movesin the pasture, its ribs extended, the warmthof the sun on…
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Multi-Faceted
Nona’s magic was woven between needles.Plop her in a desert and she’d find twined twigsand before she’d broken a sweat,…
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Pass
I sat staring at the tiny squares of the pee-stained tile floor, marveling at the idiocy of designing a high…
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Chapel Day
Halloween fell on a Wednesday,which was the day we wore our chapel uniforms:plaid skirts from waist to kneewhite button down…
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Departure Fable
‘twas a coup, rescuing half a notebook from the long forgotten dusty shelvesin the atticyou handpicked the oldest pencil and…
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If I Wrote Poems Like I Grocery Shop
The first line would always be frozen pizza.The second would read two gallons of milk,one box of raisin bran.The third…
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The Rotting Skunk on Fontaine Avenue
Compassion is a very untenable ground. – Henry David Thoreau Whenever I cross over youI leave my nostrils open —you…