A stampede kicks up funneled by corkscrew clouds a curse of cumulus The Thunder Master throws streaks across the plains ripping through pastures like gunpowder shattering Great growl in the west seems to reach the ends of the earth A wind, full-blown and fierce slings torment creating a catastrophe of trees and this hollow earth … Continue reading
When your grandmother decided for care and comfort and laid a string of pearls across an ocean it’s open depths yawning the unknown a depth you could not follow So you said your prayers beneath cerulean heavens and bribed the Norse god of independence to gather the shards of your broken soul After a while, … Continue reading
The night has razor claws soused in horror. It slinked down back roads and alleys with a murderous man. “Listen,” they said “don’t go out….don’t go out alone.” He stalked the bars smiling in neon’s sordid dazzle propped himself in the backlit shadows behind restaurants then slipped into a young nurse’s apartment his sharp knife … Continue reading
They flocked to her in droves “Cinderella,” they called. Their ardor, canned heat. “Give us a glance from your golden drapes. Come, be our Poppy Girl. Let’s worship the comet sky. Look there, the stars shine on the tips of your glass slippers.” Ah, so many Cinderella men of sparks and air chanting coy promises … Continue reading
In mid-July the heat reverberates makes the thought of comfort dull my footprints trail the thick blades of St. Augustine grass the smell of Confederate Jasmine heady and heavy Around the porch corner I’ll meet your memory framed by spilling trumpet vines caressing the painful ecstasy of slow loss These summer paths the trajectory of … Continue reading
Shopping with my mother I’m fifty going on nine in the produce section the green disarray of lettuces flamboyant peppers add some flair as if Matisse had been let loose there. Above our heads the industrial rafters are chirping with excitement two skittering little birds jumping gaily humming their good fortune. Nothing green can stay … Continue reading
My dreams stretch along a certain expanse of highway where space hangs in loops of golden unison where the ghost towns mix with sunflower fields Even this flat land is beautiful now… me the concrete velocity and desertion I could go on forever avoiding the end pushing the limits of where the swirl of the … Continue reading
The line between gray winter and bright-eyed spring dims today adrift in the chill of feathery fair-weather clouds and the short, shrill songs of rain-soaked birds Still the regal blooms peek from underfoot weeds cavorting as wild flowers cows calculate the distance along a fence line You can abandon all in the center of prime … Continue reading
I stepped into a cove of time at the edge of a neighborhood where down the street an old lady sang the finale of her daydreams the sky hung close and whispered wayward secrets in this place of ruins and relics prompting me to disbelieve the promises of architecture Sure, you can go inside and … Continue reading
Viva! The shout escapes as we relearn the language of sea nymphs and tiger sharks entrapped in a world of maroon sunsets and eternity Shipwrecked with forests of coconut trees it’s a bad time to learn you have tree nut allergies We rush into the mangled jungle to escape the forays of drug dealing pirates … Continue reading
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