Worms I’m sure lose patience With rocks with moles with each other And weeds too must get antsy sometimes Because of trowels or other...

to wherever crows fly October ended. November rushed in with warm embrace. The autumn world smelled like spring. Deciduous trees stood...

I Still Give Myself Grace I pour out another non-alcoholic beverage for the suburbia where I used to force my head to lay. The tear...

Weary from my travels, I turned the corner into their lane Coming home, back to them Everything a little different, but still just the...

I took my mum’s hand, malformed, pitiless, In her age that guarantees no renewal. She looks at me, as I bury my face in the Crux of her...

My Nemesis is a magnificent dancer. She performs pirouettes to the bar and passes after her first attempt so she can later explain the...

I’m sure my moans could carry across 4000 miles. More maybe. They go as the crow flies when I think you’re in another woman’s bed. I have...

The Summer I Got Diagnosed With Hypertension you will forfeit salt put 2300mg into an envelope the one with your rent check bike 4.33...

Frost Bitten (after ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’ by Robert Frost) I was a teenage atheist Lost to Frost and a world full of...

lily-pads on the cold water Paper boats gliding through uncertain eddies - - - Soda bread chewy in all the wrong places Trying not to gag...

I was at a home show hot tubs and roof vendors baked goods and hot sauce Fancy chamois that suck up all the spills What I didn’t expect...

Early on the last day, we drive to find the bottle bank. The morning is thick with sunrise and unspoken language and ladybirds clustered...

I start my day by finishing it the sun is creeping down like that spider under my bed and I really need to clean it out but my back aches...

my, my sister calls too early in the week, an early hour unallotted for pleasantries, especially for those a certain age a flinching,...

Homemaker Animal aches live in your belly. Susurration of hearts in an oblong vase on the kitchen island. Boil the bear delivered in an...

If I could be anything, i’d be the dying star you whisper wishes to before bed in my wildest fantasies i am your divinity akin to akemi i...

Pedestrian Living Brown house finch, God’s beauty borne aerial with heart and murmur and beat of wing all enumerate in feathers sweet,...

she did not stretch 60 feet tall like that day on the Clearwater building in Florida when the city had to install sidewalks and portable...

One Million Years Ago Yesterday A big girl now she recalls the first dress purchased with money of babies sat perfect for endless summers...

Start the tape. and Richard says: Okay, dena. Are you ready to talk? Do you want to answer some questions? dena says: Umm. Stares...