A Matter of Time
I hadn’t seen Josh for ten years when he found me on Facebook. After an avalanche of messages he arranged to meet me beneath the Town Hall clock. As it struck the hour, a taller, leaner...
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Time for a Tear
When you were born Belinda, my world ended. ‘Say Da, Da.’ Belinda gurgled up a smile, her eyes twinkled and her small hands playfully reached up to my grinning face. A face of...
Read MoreThough Unseen, Her Soul is Lucid
And soft, like thoughts on snowy evenings. The amber fire inside of her warms me. She is filled with sympathy; cries out when injustice sets fire to the world. She’s a subtle...
Read MoreCould You Stay the Night, Forever?
Wrapped in the fireplace of your arms. Warmed by the trust in your smile. The night and our love Are acquainted. You cuddle close and feel my heart. I brush your hair away from your...
Read MoreThese Things
I have longed to be the quiet, fading light that helps you sleep; and sunrise through the open door. I’ve stayed awake for hours, wondering how I could channel the most beautiful...
Read MoreThe Key to a Woman’s Heart is Within the Man
Soundless, he crashed along her walls. Fell like a bruised rock, died shivering in the clover. She stirred, asleep: an oblivious, silent orchestra. Autumn leaves and music entered his death...
Read MoreSeasonally Home
I pack away summer clothes to a soundscape of Vivaldi. The songs of summer birds have settled like dust. I light a candle at the window and watch leaves fall across the yard, overcome by a...
Read MorePulse
The morning is cool, quiet, set perfectly in place and her eyes are filled with it. She kneels down, watches bees bend the silky petals of her favorite flower. Time is a deific ox pulling...
Read MoreMorning Rain
This morning there was much rain, forcing the birds into trees, the butterflies beneath leaves. I stand at the open window, listening for the cool silence between raindrops. I begin to...
Read MoreMoonshadow
She sails under a moonshadow on the back of a white swan. Tears fall down her cheeks because her heart is unloved. She sees twilight in the water then turns around to face it. A star...
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