Imagine looking for your grandma and finding her floral caftan with matching pink furry slippers, the floral citrus smell of Channel #5 still hanging in the air meandering along the trail of brilliant zinnias all the way to the hot tub. Then imagine the evidence, a struggle, indentations in the St. Augustine signaling an awful … 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 Art Teacher has left town in her shiny Mini Cooper, starlight blue headed into the city She has abandoned the art lab the student spilled watercolor trays the stiff paint brushes and half colored birds drying in the air Now escaped she is in full bloom skirting the fringes of a Renoir painting Around … Continue reading
I gave you butterflies and a freedom compass a sure route to the North Star a desert of sugared sands to sweeten the fallout from the bitter winds We journeyed to find shades of truth beyond finite borders and inkblot pages unveiling the recipe for disappearance lodged inside the Bermuda triangle Then glided serenely on … Continue reading
These little beauties homegrown rascals hang their heads up high tossing petal smirks at impending Old Man Winter They keep summer near close at hand voting for eternal spring the Reaper is nigh and far to the north Til then, they will saunter and linger as a sad torch singer breaks into lament and a … Continue reading
A fairy tale parcel an invitation to be unfolded as the silvery shadows of evening deepen draping us in the lustrous purple robes of mystery and romance the stars are but charms in the sky shimmering ornaments they are the bracelets of queens sparkling in deep, velvety darkness the capture of beauty and enchantment as … Continue reading
In a pool of liquid gold evening melts on the horizon a feathered angel swims into the fading light amidst the soft rustle of fall leaves and the gentle flow of melodic water in beautiful torment these waves of sound strike the last golden days now behind her She cranes her head Oh, Beautiful One … Continue reading
This August day saturated in frost as the dark penetrates the light that sultry moon gliding and giddy with ravishing charm skirted briefly the path of the sun who dares blot the massive star of furnace fame? skipping through an intersection of orbital planes leaning in the umbral shadow arms outstretched seeking totality shadowed secrets … Continue reading
The sky is on fire ruby red sunset streaked with desire as if painted fish swim the the mountains A path spilling from the hills brimming fiery, red clay its flame builds in dusk Ah, divide the world into sunsets Here the village sits a map point in jungle dense magnificent On the edge of … Continue reading
In the strawberry-hued fields of youth you sat there painted girl with flowers in your hair lavender swirling in the sky with soft fury Princess, they said with cat’s eyes and porcelain skin fancy finery subtly gazing enthralled peering upward watching clouds melt into castles Such bounteous flowers heavy adornment a passion princess composing a … Continue reading
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