Daily Archives: February 22, 2012

  when words are thrown like stones something always sticks.

  Sometimes I hear it in my mind. Music, she says. That is why I dance.  

  I swim in you oh, seas of blue fringed by dark lashed shores. Azure pools beckon, cool. I dive in and melt, restored.            

Stop all the clocks. They tick me off, scoffing and running with their smiling faces and their busy hands. Throw in the towels. They hang around, dry no tears, wipe no years from these old tired eyes, trembling smile. Grab … Continue reading →

This elastic has worn thin, washed (tumbled) one too many times stretched outside the normal lines of resilience, reason. This labor has gone on long enough, I’m tired can’t keep track of the timing of these contractions (can’t, won’t, don’t…haven’t) … Continue reading →

He rides free nothin’ but the wind in his Stetson and a quarter in his pocket in case of neon phone booth. Dials. Waits for the tone. Contemplates the meanings of fuchsia, turquoise, chartreuse and constant busy signals. No one … Continue reading →

See these leaves? They are my wishes, my children, pieces of myself and yet I let them flit fall fly freely, stolen by breeze. My branches stretch grow go where time tell them fill the sky’s canvas with their skeletal … Continue reading →

shore, full steam ahead. Pay no mind to the buoys bobbing about, the gulls screeching out their own instructions. Beware of sharks, and currents and rips and undertow and high tide. And sharp rocks. And jellies. Keep a close eye … Continue reading →