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
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
She walks in beauty or rather she once ran through the scorching farm fields heavy with crops Look at me, she would say swarthy, twiglike, silky hair her brain lit with chemical combustion She rescued him in the desert poured drinks of rainwater plied his truths with drunken lips and lies He ran blindly haunted … Continue reading
So I found myself walking atop Big Blue trying to talk a vampire down from the ledge. Of course, I knew him, after all, we go way back. Not as far back as we could go, as I’m obviously not a vampire, mind you. He wasn’t even old in vampire years yet, but old enough … Continue reading
When you danced with the Mambo Kings and you found sultry in the sway of their movements you tasted salsa spicy upon your tongue and swirled in dances twirling on your feet. You hung out of club windows at 3 AM waving to the milling street crowds clamoring for a carnival bringing color and heat. … Continue reading
After sunset when evening shadows begin inching toward dark in dusky, amethyst hues the flames of a burning sun diminishing, cosmic splendor is born anew as twilight claims the pivotal hour before Nightfall dons her sultry evening gown. Once burnished hands stretch upward one rung nearer to starry surprise in velvet skies as the Moon … Continue reading
I arrive finding you waiting on the steps your eyes smile at me my heart skates you stand and walk toward me I’ve waited a lifetime for you it’s twilight I bask in warmth and security walking in the soon-to-be-darkness holding your hand learning the intricacies of your heart the key fits… separated souls no … Continue reading
You come to me slipped from a dream and from that lofty platform where all players have played their parts beneath that opulent moon the curse of the star-crossed the sorrowful stars have scattered I knew your song you sang it well transfixed, I stood there on the ballroom floor picking out my destiny one … Continue reading
After it’s all done what is better than skirting around eternity radiant in ethereal light forever with my kindred soul broken no more at the end of age fearless…. we seek the heavens never-ending moonbeam journey amongst the stars after the torment of a life spent disrupted souls – no more flee – fly into … Continue reading
“When you are old and gray and full of sleep and nodding by the fire… ” I will take the book from your shaky hands and read then become the silk-sewn voice from your memory. I will help you see through your cloudy eyes, the pureness of heart, the beauty of spirit. As you nod … Continue reading
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