The Crack There’s a crack in the headboard Has it always been there? Did he see it and ignore it? Maybe he didn’t think it was going to crack open a thunders...

Two Days after Eden I woke with the ‘rage of all women’ condensed in my throat. Too newborn and without eyesight, I could not see the many like me, rallying ...

City Holler It’s a warm summer evening. I’ve just finished my post-run two-for-one burrito special from the convenience store below my city apartment. A calc...

Deer in the Headlights Half asleep and bleary from lack of coffee, I stumble onto mist-shrouded trail. My clumsy trespass startles a doe and her two spotted ...

Homespun Her hair still strong enough—once solidly grabbed, tightly twisted—to make a decent rope. So intimately attached to her skull she could hang over th...

The House Wrapped Around as if I’d never left, my feet automatically adapting to the spot that dipped, and without looking I knew the exact distance between ...

SIX Sensuous, pear-shaped, full of rhythm so fascinating to Jasper Johns drawing, painting, sculpting them into dull silvery statements deep black matte rema...

won't silence my magic they've told me i dream too big since day one, but perhaps their dreams aren't big enough; i want to be challenged, i want an adventur...

With Just One Look with just one look the stars begin to spin in the sky my heartbeat fluttering my breathing rapid my head spinning, as the stars above me tw...

Hey, Winds! Hey, winds! You sweep butterflies away. A short day is their ages' scales. A butterfly disappears with its beauty. Hey, winds! You will never be ...

Someone Love was something he felt But did not receive in return He always hoped to receive A little benevolence or sympathy. The world turned its back No on...