When their lips touched, it was soft, tender as a new bruise, a fragile thing that neither was sure of. Yet for all its fragility, […]
Accidental Aftermath
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The cut was long and lean, like a fashion model’s jawline, not a gaping wound, like someone had lost their mind and tried to saw […]
Love’s Necklace
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Your love is a necklace that lays upon my heart, its light a solid beacon that only you and I can see. It is how […]
National Haiku Day
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April 17 is National Haiku Day and since today’s PAD prompt was to write a “nerve poem”, I decided to celebrate by using haiku to […]
The Space of a Heartbeat
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The old will tell you life goes by in the blink of an eye. They are not wrong, but we don’t see that until our […]
The Ballad of the Harp-weaver
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I tried to get you in the poetry mood at the beginning of the month with a poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay, and since […]
My Mother’s Spaghetti Sauce
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People who know me well, know that I’m not a big fan of Italian food. I don’t hate it, it’s just that I’m not a […]
How is the Hardest Question
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How is the hardest question. Not who, not what, not when, not where. Why can be difficult too, but I still think it’s how. When […]
Running With Wild Horses
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With pen in hand I try to pen my thoughts into manageable spaces, like a rancher corrals unbroken horses. I come close to closing the […]
Taboo Tabu
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My mother rarely wore perfume, opting mostly for soap and water clean. Now and then she would get a small bottle of some flowery scent […]
