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I Am dissolving Into the subliminal interior~ A floating caress perpetually undressing~ Gesticulating wordless and deliriously tongue-tied I ask you obscure and unanswerable things~ You snatch Away all my questions~ Leaving the…
There are caverns of sand that we have yet To lay our bodies~ Parallel with the island Humidity~ Where saturated skies descend To powdered dusk~ Against the silhouette Of palms~ Amidst the…
I Was trying To remember my Home and my country But I vanished for a reason I must have wanted to forget~ Now is my reincarnation~ How Many, you ask? I have…
~Fireflies~ Flicker a promissory Note as a symphony of cicadas Emerge from hibernation~ I listen intently To its sounds of unshaped words: its xylophone Chakra vibrations~ I confide in the gecko glued…
4 tbsps. butter, melted 1 ½ lbs. scallops, rinsed and patted dry ½ cup seasoned bread crumbs 1 tsp. garlic powder ½ tsp. onion powder ½ tsp. paprika ½ tsp. dried parsley…
It was never something apart, something I could talk about, say. Oh, I like that. I didn't even know what it was until I met him. I was more than innocent, I…
Four girls. We knew they'd grow up and leave home. But New York, all of them! Please, God, tell me why. I think Father had his doubts about four daughters; man wants…
Every year we have a cake with another candle on it as though he had climbed out of the wreck alive and sat at the table with us now, laughing and telling…
Late afternoon, on the edge of an interstate, where it cut through a neighborhood, this red setter stretched out by the white line looking as if he's asleep. No blood, not a…
It wasn't enough that he was self-centered and selfish, sometimes Barry Cranston acted downright arrogant. Certainly his younger girlfriend Cherie knew this. They had an off and on relationship, which at the…
Pushed up from the crust’s movements, or spewed from the hot belly of the earth’s core, mountain ranges form a spine, the bones of continents. Cloaked in tree and bush except on…
I was the fat guy at the Wal-Mart last Saturday at 2PM. I wore the Notre Dame football jersey, so just maybe you did not think I was fat—maybe you thought I…
Dearest Sister, It is nine years since Your voice was stilled You left us all to soon You cannot hear my plaint Yet, I must bare my heart Shout into the uncaring…
suddenly awake sleep gone sky grey day just begun focus my thoughts pictures rise from long, long ago..... from the battlefield...... world war 2..... the Black Forest..... Aachen in 1944...... it is…
my best work is at first light faint rays of day below the horizon palliate the black night a glimmer in the mother lode chip away corners to reveal the idea imprisoned…
lest we forget those still alive survivors of World War 2 heroes of that horrification remnant of those who gave their youth strength and souls to preserve our way of life my…
Magnolias are budding Though frost is here Spring’s pledge is nigh As December is due Darkness is everywhere Storms scourge our hides Abrading our resolve Testing our mettle Magnolias are budding Sunny…
[u] was out of the question. That much was obvious. [u] was immature. It was juvenile. It was lazy and sloppy and thoughtless and in all honesty probably a little bit on…
My ex-husband has the napkin with the ankh-shaped blood stain from the tattoo on my back, pre-scab. It was the late 90’s when jeans still covered the place modern girls decorate with…
I've only known one French woman this one in Minneapolis, married to a French executive at a horse packing plant. The French, apparently, not only eat snails, they also eat horse meat.…