Monthly Archives: March 2012

Seize the phrase. The one so beautiful it makes your brain hurt before you can spill it to the page. Corral the words, and bid them play follow the leader on these long white halls, before they wander off into … Continue reading →

I still don’t know what it is. I paw at it, pet it shine it up only to have it run away. Sometimes it’s a whisper, sometimes an actual shape, smell, taste on my tongue; other times the constellation of … Continue reading →

I scream with no sound as they are ripped from my panicked grasp by a dark figure with huge ebony eyes and no mouth. My feet move, but the ground doesn’t, some terrible cartoon character running on air and getting … Continue reading →

Here’s to flutter. That of those dark fringes framing impossibly large baby blues, and that of my heart when they fall just so blinking in wonder at a world so new. Here’s to embracing fat tears, the salt water we … Continue reading →

They run together like indigo ink, Lake water throwing back perfect sky, blue eyes flashing with sandy, wave-lapped laughter. These summers these liquid weeks flow into our souls and slip so quickly through our hands. The footprints of our kids … Continue reading →

At ease. It’s the way my heart feels when I lift my hands and stand knowing you are listening; knowing you are smiling because this is my truest me, this De who finally sheds herself fears, tears hesitant heart and … Continue reading →

You snore. I knew this, of course, but when I am not trying to sleep, the reverberation is somehow Soothing. Rhythmic. Reassuring. This ploomfy bed, soft as a cloud, downy peaceful cocoon pillowed all around me whispers fragrance of my … Continue reading →

  Jostle it just right to let the breeze blow through and this fragrant, fleeting last fringed ash of me and you might just fly, a crimson remnant in the sky.  

, He said. And He meant it. All the pain All the sorrow All the humiliation All the degradation ……….and grief and loss All the fears and the tears ……….and the lonely years All the torn, lost time The world … Continue reading →